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 …
Using language that feels real to the client helps to ground our work as Organisation Development & Design practitioners. Clear communication helps create successful, lasting change. At Mayvin we have been exploring what two different worlds – sign language and arts interpretation – can teach us about how to talk the real language of organisations. …
How can practice-based learning support your development at times of discontinous change? At our June Mayvin Community event, we are joined by an ‘un-panel’ of speakers from different sectors who share their stories of practice development in uncertain times. Earlier in the year, the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) joined us at …
Later this month, Mayvin Director Martin Saville is facilitating a Key Skills workshop on embodied leadership for HR Business Partners, organised by the Central London branch of the CIPD. Here, Martin introduces the key principles of an embodied approach and looks at how it can enable people to feel centred and better resourced when under pressure. …
At times of unprecedented complexity, pressure and ambiguity, it is a natural response to put up psychological defences. In his latest blog, Mayvin Director Martin Saville invites us all to practise building tolerance for anxiety instead of trying to avoid it. Back in December I shared three leadership principles for uncertain times, based on our work with …
Dr Naomi Stanford, organisation design practitioner, teacher, and author, shares her thoughts on reflective learning following our latest Mayvin Community event ‘The Development Trap’: How can you learn when there is no time for learning? At the event, we explored how a ‘just in time’ leadership model can enable people to adapt and learn close …