As Mayvin approaches its 10th anniversary, we invite you to join three special Mayvin Community events reflecting on a decade of People Change. We’re celebrating 10 years of Mayvin with a series of special anniversary events for our clients and the Mayvin Community. You’re invited to join us as we welcome in the new decade and reflect on 10 years of …
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 …
Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser and Penny Lawrence from Women’s International Leadership Development (WILD) are organisers of the event: Feminist futures – leadership, diversity and women. This event will address some of the trickiest issues around women in leadership and the wider agenda of diversity and feminist leadership. And to complement the event, WILD is sharing information on their action …
Together with the Mayvin Community, we’ve been exploring how an artful approach can create the spaces of reflection needed for more open, honest conversations about change in organisations. The focus of our most recent event was Artful Approaches to Organisational Change where we explored how an artful approach can create the spaces of reflection needed …
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. …
Unprecedented change – whether it is Brexit, power shifts or new funding models – means we need to learn fast, reflect on the job and become more adaptive by changing our behaviours. But how do you develop the skills to do this, and help others to do so, when there is no time for learning? …
In this blog, we share insights from our latest event ‘Organisation Development at the speed of Digital’, in partnership with Adapt2Digital. As Organisation Development practitioners, we are not looking for simplistic answers, we enable people to find the next good question to help them navigate their organisational worlds. At our latest event, we invited the …
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 …
What does it really mean to put customers at the heart of what we do in our Organisation Development work? We’ll be exploring customer-centric OD at our next Mayvin community event, co-hosted with John Lewis Partnership. We’ll enquire together into some key questions: Are there parallels between what frustrates the partner and what frustrates the customer? How …
Improving organisation performance by telling the truth Mayvin Chair Tony Fraser, Geraldine Haley and Anna Fraser have been working together developing a book on truthfulness in organisations. At our latest Mayvin Community event, Tony and Geraldine investigated the idea of skilful honesty with OD professionals from public sector organisations, NGOs and the private sector. The …
Last week we welcomed colleagues, clients and friends to our latest Mayvin Community event: ‘Organisation Design – people matter!’ We inquired together about how to push the boundaries of Organisation Design to make it a truly people change experience. We all shared our thinking about Organisation Design in response to the following questions: What are the main …
When faced with an HR problem, rather than hiding behind the formal, policy-driven route, how would it be to move towards the difficult conversations and solve the issue before it went to lengthy (and often costly and draining) formal process? ‘Confront the difficult whilst it is still easy’ as the 2,500 year-old Chinese book of …
You know the business case for increasing diversity in leadership. This is all the more pertinent in international development, with gender equality and women’s empowerment dominating the change agenda. But you look around your organisation and see the mismatch between the strategy and what actually happens internally. You want to do something to make a …