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. …
Whether it’s because of changes in context, lack of resources or shifts in relationships, NGOs are thinking about transformation. To create truly transformative change, Organisation Development (OD) needs to be an equal partner in the process, says practitioner Sarah Ireland. Here, Sarah shares her top tips for successful change. For me, transformation doesn’t mean change for …
If planning alone won’t cut it, what else can we count on in these uncertain times? Mayvin Director Martin Saville sets out three key leadership principles for navigating change. With the world around us continuing to be predictably unpredictable, what could help you lead in such complex and challenging times? A ‘chaos and complexity’ mindset …
How do you successfully manage a transition to a new role, and a new sector? Sarah Ireland, Head of Learning and People Development for St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset and formerly Regional Director Asia and Head of Organisation Effectiveness for Oxfam GB, shares her experience. Eight months in to a new job I am wishing …
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. …
Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser on how OD can make a difference in the third sector when charities face the reality of balancing fundraising and impact. I was listening to Radio 4 recently, a repeat of a programme aired a while ago that I had missed, called The Charity Business. The episode was about charities and impact. It made for …
Mayvin’s Tony Nicholls illustrates how, when it comes to doing OD & D for real in organisations, OD models, tools and techniques are not enough: people matter too. What does it mean to do OD & D for real in organisations? When working with clients, I often find myself in conversations about why change remains …
Inspired by the beautiful game, Mayvin Associate Sue Belgrave celebrates the understated courage and compassion of leaders who are open, honest and real. There have been many, many times when I have stood in front of groups talking about change and have said “we need to focus on what is working and, as we do that, we will …
Where OD sits, and how it is placed, on the organisational map become critical factors in how centrally it is regarded to the actual act of designing and delivering an organisation’s change. I recently met with a Director of Operations of a public sector organisation who explained: “the CEO suggested we meet; that you might be able to …