In her first blog since maternity leave, Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser explores whether her tacit experience of working deeply with the unknown of parenthood might mean she brings a slightly different ‘self’ to the OD table. It’s my first proper day back at work after maternity leave today. I’m sat at my desk with a …
Inspired by the beautiful game, Mayvin Associate Sue Belgrave celebrates the understated courage and compassion of leaders who are open, honest and real. There have been many, many times when I have stood in front of groups talking about change and have said “we need to focus on what is working and, as we do that, we will …
Guest blogger Pete Burden invites you to face up to the discomfort of newness and change by taking some simple, powerful steps to becoming a truly digital leader. There are many definitions of what it means to become more ‘digital’ as an organisation or to be a digital leader. Many lists, models and theories. I tend …
With the digital age heralded as the end of expertise, Mayvin’s Dr James Traeger considers what new possibilities this brings to Practice-based Learning. The day after Rob Warwick and I went to Pagham Harbour – where we stood on the spit of pebbles, that felt like it was miles out to sea – and commissioned …
Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester introduces his latest research project with Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger: Practice-based Learning. Ideas are bubbling up for a new research project. And one keeps coming back to me and it is this: what might Self-Managed Learning (SML) look like in the 21st …
Mayvin Director James Traeger sees feminist leadership as part of creating a more inclusive culture. But could staying silent be his wisest contribution to the conversation? We sat in a circle, myself and five women. The speaker at this conference had just described herself, amongst other things, as a feminist leader. We were tasked to …
Tony Nicholls, Mayvin Principal Consultant, demonstrates how the way in which we see organisations and our field of practice as ‘things’ can constrain our thinking and effectiveness as practitioners. As part of our emerging thinking on where Organisation Development meets Organisation Design, I previously wrote about how “curiosity, reflection and systems thinking could be the spaces …
Mayvin Director James Traeger writes about his experience of speaking at an unusual ‘conference’, Inexpert2018, which celebrated the power of inexpertise and not knowing. Inexpert2018 struck me as a great idea. Inexpert creator, Steve Chapman, describes the idea: ‘In a world pre-disposed to speaker events where we are invited to listen to those with knowledge and answers, Inexpert asked what would …