Has leadership had its day? Organisations today seem to be unable to call upon anything else when it comes to thinking about the future, creating change and getting things done. We ask whether this might be an unhealthy state of affairs. Mayvin’s forthcoming book by Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls, The Forgotten Art of Management, will address this question and …
The Mayvin virtual community on LinkedIn was created during the beginning of the UK lockdown to provide on online space for connection for Mayvin’s network of practitioners in the fields of Organisation Development & Design, HR and Learning & Development. In the group, we discuss the challenges that change practitioners are facing in their organisations, we celebrate …
In March, Mayvin started a series of mailings called Our Stories as a space for the Mayvin team and community to reflect and share their experiences of dealing with the challenges of lockdown. In this blog post, you’ll find the summary and highlights of these mailings, which might be useful to you as you create …
Mayvin is running two different Artful Ways virtual sessions at the ODN Europe Carnival of Disruption later this month, an online conference focused on disruptive practice in Organisation Development. Our two ODNE carnival sessions invite you to join us in disrupting the current paradigm of thinking in organisations, which is based on a so-called rational, scientific management model. We see …
We are pleased to share some updates from the Mayvin team as we look ahead to our second decade as a business. Throughout the past few months, we have been continuing to support our clients to find a positive way through discontinuous change during these uncertain times. We are looking to the future with optimism …
Mayvin colleague, Steve Chapman, is an artist, writer, speaker, consultant and coach interested in creativity and the human condition. He has spoken around the world on the subject of creativity, culture and the importance of being a passionate weirdo. He recently co-hosted one of Mayvin’s Artful Knowing webinars on The Art of Not Knowing. In this …
Dr James Traeger and Dr Rob Warwick have been working with ODN Europe to ask some fundamental questions about the future of organisation development (OD). Here, James and Rob share where they see the future and ethics brought into sharp relief by the ongoing pandemic. Rob Warwick writes: It is spring 2020 and Covid-19 is ripping its way …
Following our communications last month about growing the team here at Mayvin, we wanted to update you on our thinking in light of the current global context. We are still very keen to expand the Mayvin team but, recognising that the situation across the world is changing hour by hour, we think it is wise to suspend the process …