Claire Newell Marketing Manager talks to Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls about his brand new book, Managing Change in Organizations in this podcast episode. Tony talks us through why he wrote the book. What led him to feeling that it was needed and what you can expect to find in it. Including practical tips and examples of how to manage the people side of change.  You don't need to be a change manager to be managing change. Change is happening all the time in organisations, whether it's...

In this podcast episode Mayvin Director Martin Saville interviews our client Dr Catherine Howe of Adur and Worthing Councils. We have been supporting her in relation to Organisation Design work.  Catherine is a researcher on change in the 21st century on digital and on civic engagement. She is also the chief executive of Adur and Worthing Councils in the South East of the UK. A post she's held for about a year. And we've been working with her supporting her through a process of...

This podcast is all about using the self as an instrument. As discussed by Mayvin director Martin Saville and Principal Consultant, Carolyn Norgate. Within seconds of talking on the subject, both Martin and Carolyn mentioned Mee-yan Cheung-Judge.  Her name is so synonymous with this topic. Especially due to her seminal paper in 2001: The self as an instrument a cornerstone for the future of OD. Sadly, only a couple of days after this podcast was recorded Mee-yan passed away. So we would like...

The fertile void is one of the most read articles on our website. So we decided to delve deeper into the topic of making space for thinking time between one activity and another. In this podcast episode, James Trager and Tony Fraser, discussed the fertile void and Gestalt psychology in the context of organisations. Tony reflects that often in organisations, activity and action, or being busy, can be confused with being productive and gaining results. Taking thinking time – time to reflect, to...

This podcast episode is guest hosted by Richard Lang, introducing us to the Headless Way. The Headless way was first developed by Douglas Harding many years ago, Richard and Douglas were good friends. And so Douglas has spent the last 50 years sharing the Headless Way with people like ourselves. The Headless Way is method of becoming aware of your most private self, which the suggestion is, is a spacious still and the most spiritual part of you. But Richard invites us not to just take this in...

For many, the current approach to designing and implementing leadership and management development programmes isn't quite hitting the mark. Over the last 10 years Mayvin has delivered programmes across the private, public and third sectors. We have learnt a lot about how to design programmes that work receiving feedback such as: "the best learning I have attended in my whole career" "had a huge impact on both my professional and personal life" "I cannot express how I much I have enjoyed this...

Following on from a webinar we ran on check-ins as part of our Artful Inquiry series, Tony Nicholls, Claire Newell and Zoë Morrison had an in depth discussion about check-ins. Check-ins are part of every day life at Mayvin and our processes around them and the way that we check-in is constantly evolving as the company changes and the conversation reflects that.

We have recently hosted two Artful sessions on the topic of embodiment. Sophie Tidman hosted one on Radical Rest and Tom Kenward hosted one on Living From Centre More of the Time. They were popular sessions and so we decided to explore the topic further. In this podcast Martin Saville and Sophie Tidman discuss what brought them to learn about Embodiment, how it relates to their work in Organisation Development, the insights it give us over ourselves and more. If you are interested in...

There is much discussion these days about ‘speaking truth to power’. But what if power isn’t capable of listening?  Speaking truth to power is not just a question of the skill of the speaker. It might also be as much about the skill of the person being spoken to.  James Traeger and Tony Fraser hosted this group inquiry to explore: - How and why leaders avoid and suppress truthfulness. - What can you do to encourage greater truthfulness in your organisation? - How can you support your leaders...

In January 2022 Sophie Tidman hosted an Artful Enquiry session "Embodiment Part 1: Radical Rest" for Mayvin's community. During the session Sophie took everyone through a Yoga Nidra meditation and we have shared it for you to listen to in this podcast episode.   Before you listen in, find somewhere comfortable to lie down, get cosy and relax!  Note: Don't listen while you are driving/ operating machinery or in a situation where it would be dangerous to do so.

In a couple of months time Mayvin is starting it's new MA in People and Organisation Development Programme, which by now you probably know we are very excited about. It will give participants a post-graduate certificate after year 1 and the opportunity to take it all the way to a full MA after year 3. Programme Director James Traeger and Year 1 Lead Carolyn Norgate have been hosting online open days and having one to one chats with prospective participants for about six months now. So we...

Towards the end of last year we published an animation with a conversation between Carolyn Norgate and Sophie Tidman about what it is that makes us different and special. We’ve had some lovely feedback about it and so we thought we would share the full conversation in this Podcast Episode. Aside from saying yes to the mess, in this episode Carolyn and Sophie talk about the excitement of offering a Masters, what it is they love about working at Mayvin, the Mayvin approach to leadership...

In this episode we are talk about development programmes and Action Learning. The Mayvin team has grown substantially over the last couple of years and includes a mix of OD practitioners and those that are not from an OD background but specialise in other areas such as Operations, Marketing and Business Development. At the beginning of 2021, we decided to run a development programme for the newest members of the Mayvin team, who are all non-OD practitioners. The aim of the programme was to...

Today we’ve released a special one-off episode that our dear friends Rob and Paul at Unfinished Business Radio Harrow featured on their radio show a few weeks back.   In this episode, they interviewed our very own James Traeger and explored the need for empathy and love amongst other things. 

Event 3/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our third group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Sarah Fraser. 

Event 2/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our second group inquiry event hosted by Sarah Fraser and Tony Nicholls. 

Event 1/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our first group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Tony Nicholls. 

Episode 3/3, Jennifer Hutton. In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Jennifer Hutton; Deputy Director of Organisational Development for the Church of England, who elaborates on the reality of the organisation adapting and letting new working patterns emerge in practice. 

Episode 2/3, Steve O'Donoghue. In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Steve O'Donoghue; Director of Corporate Services at the Trade Remedies Authority, who invites us to explore an emergent approach to developing guiding principles and practices to support staff in developing new working patterns. 

Episode 1/3, Liz Maddocks-Brown. In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Liz Maddocks Brown, a Senior programme Manager for the NHS who offers us a fascinating insight into working within the NHS during Covid.