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 …
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 …
At our next Mayvin Community event, ‘The Development Trap’, we will joined by Organisational Development and Design practitioners from the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) to share how a ‘just in time’ leadership model can enable people to adapt and learn close to the grain of the work in discontinous times. Here, …
How can an imaginative, creative approach to work help us to meet organisational challenges? Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester and Dr James Traeger, Mayvin Director explore artful ways of knowing. If we are to find solutions to difficult problems we need to pay attention to different and …
Making patterns productive is about sharing them, creating a commonly held and mutual narrative, and being vulnerable and open as we learn together. In the first in a new series of blogs for 2019, Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger shares the productive patterns that help us walk our talk in the world of people change. We …
Rather than aspiring to a perfect system, a worldview that constantly disappoints, why not see the organisation as a messy, beautiful human system? In the latest blog in our OD for Real series, Mayvin Director James Traeger reflects on his personal experience of Jewish New Year and its resonance with the here and now of organisational life. …
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 …
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 …
Mayvin Director James Traeger challenges us all to face up to the political and moral dimensions of every choice we make as Organisation Development practitioners. Political positions of OD: insights from a group supervision session A recent group supervision session with a client provided an opportunity for reflection on the moral and political positions of OD. We started …
Ahead of the publication of Organisation Development: a Bold Explorer’s Guide, Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester, offers a different way of thinking about business ethics, one that focuses on relationships and how these change. Those small decisions and actions that we take daily that, over the course …
How might science fiction help us to understand organisations? Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester shares ideas from Organisation Development: a Bold Explorer’s Guide, an upcoming book co-written with Mayvin Director Dr James Traeger. James Traeger and I have been writing a book called Organisation Development: a Bold Explorer’s …
Mayvin Director James Traeger explores how, paradoxically, Digital Leadership may help people move away from a binary perspective to a more human, complex and inquisitive worldview. ‘It was the best of times it was the worst of times’. So begins Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, set at the time of the French Revolution, in …
At our latest event ‘OD for Real’, we invited the Mayvin community to imagine the future of HR and OD. Here, Dr Rob Warwick, Reader in Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Chichester, describes how the event supports the research and writing of Organisation development: home truths of practice, an upcoming book co-written …
Mayvin Director James Traeger asks if an overload of OD tools and techniques is endangering reflective learning and practice. I received links to two documents on the same day, from completely different sources, that connected to each other. Coincidence or synchronicity? One was an articulate article by Judi Marshall and Paul Tosey, lamenting ‘The demise of …
My colleague Rob Warwick and I have been commissioned to write a book about Organisation Development. Here are two letters from us that explains our motivation for this book and in doing so a little about ourselves. The beginning of our Organisation Development book is an antidote to a traditional approach that introduces the authors to the reader in grandiose …
Our colleague Dr Rob Warwick of the University of Chichester discusses the book he is writing about Organisation Development with Mayvin Director James Traeger. A few days ago James Traeger and I were sitting in a rather lovely room overlooking the lawns at Ashridge management college. Here we signed a contract to write a book …