Dr James Traeger, Mayvin’s Director of Research and Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester, have been named on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list 2019. The acclaimed list of 30, compiled by HR magazine, celebrates practitioners and academics pushing the field of people management further. Dr James Traeger and Dr …
How can you sustain a good working relationship with your colleagues, with the people you lead, even when the world around you is changing catastrophically? Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger explores how a practice-based learning approach enables the levels of relational intelligence needed in order to embrace whatever context we all may find ourselves in …
Since a Tourette’s related one-liner won the funniest joke of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe, the neurological condition has received a lot of media attention. Mayvin Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls has been investigating more about Tourette’s. He writes about his reflections on one of Oliver Sacks’ stories about patients with this syndrome. In addition, Tony shares his …
Mayvin Chairman Tony Fraser introduces the first of three articles about Gestalt in Organisation Development (OD). After a brief introduction including an account of his personal experience of the power of the Gestalt method, Tony highlights the three distinctive domains of the Gestalt OD practitioner: Raising Awareness; Making meaning; Encouraging and supporting contact. This article …
Mayvin Associate Consultant, Clare Joghee, is part of our Artful Knowing research group at Mayvin. In this blog, Clare takes us on a journey to Sicily and asks how Dramatherapy techniques, with myth and stories, can be used more in Organisation Development and business to help us all to better understand the organisations we are a …
Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester, invites you to join us in exploring how artfulness and the playground offer an opportunity to explore organisational life from a different paradigm that is all too often dominated by rational and scientific assumptions. Artfulness and the playground, two words you …
As a leader, you must actively, consciously step into the uncomfortable space of being vulnerable and open. It will help you to be ready to learn from the system you are responsible for – something that is more important than ever during times of discontinuous change. In his latest blog, Mayvin Director James Traeger shares …
Together with the Mayvin Community, we’ve been exploring practice-based learning in uncertain times. In this blog we share some of the insights about practice development, expertise and vulnerability from our event: Practice-based learning in your world. What’s the relationship between vulnerability and expertise in your practice and your particular context? At our latest Mayvin Community event …