Send us a text As head of Organisation Development at Virgin Media, (now Virgin Media O2), Adrian Clarke commissioned 3 cohorts of our Organisation Development (OD) capability building programme, during the pandemic and just before a big merger between Virgin Media and O2. We are very grateful that Adrian took time out to chat to our Principal Consultant Carolyn Norgate in this podcast, to talk about the programme, the role of OD, especially in times of major organisational change and how this p...
Jun 13, 2023•36 min
Send us a text Here at Mayvin, we do our best to walk our talk. So we offer our employees the opportunity to participate in a development programme similar to the ones we deliver for our clients. It's great for them to experience an action learning set example. Our wonderful associate Cathy Korn is facilitating our latest programme of seven employees across operations, client management and marketing. The aim of the programme is to assist participants with personal practice development and to en...
May 05, 2023•25 min
Send us a text We recently hosted an online event in which we talked about the future of organisational learning . We feel a big part of that is practice-based learning. And we are applying that in our masters programme. We were joined by current MA participants, Amy Martin and Priti Colbeck. They kindly agreed to talk about their experience of the Mavyvin Masters in People and Organisation Development so far. Our faculty lead, Carolyn Norgate asked them a few questions. And we thought we’d shar...
Apr 14, 2023•15 min
Send us a text This is the 6th and final interview in our Podcast mini series – Why OD? In this episode we share an interview with Carolyn Norgate, Principal Consultant , about how and why she got into Organisation Development. Carolyn came to OD through a pretty traditional HR route, but OD was "a bit weird" at the time and she had to be a little covert about it to start with. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our webs...
Mar 24, 2023•18 min
Send us a text In this episode, the 5th in our series of "Why OD?", Marketing Manager Claire Newell interviews Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls, to find out how he got into the field of OD. Tony started out designing fighter aircraft, but realised he wanted to work with people not planes. Listen in to find out more about his journey. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Mar 17, 2023•10 min
Send us a text In episode 4 of our podcast mini series “ Why OD? ”, you can listen in to an interview with Sophie Tidman , Principal Consultant about the twists and turns in her journey towards Organisation Development. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Mar 10, 2023•15 min
Send us a text Listen in to this interview with Sarah Fraser , where our Marketing Manager Claire Newell asks her how she came to work in this world that we call OD. This is third episode of our mini-series " Why OD? ". Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Mar 03, 2023•16 min
Send us a text In the second podcast in our series of "Why OD?", Mayvin Marketing Manager Claire Newell asked Director James Traeger about how and why he came to work in the field of OD. Find out about the twists and turns in James' journey including the crazy paved world of activism, gender and the Met Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Feb 24, 2023•17 min
Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of our podcast mini series. Why OD? As organisation development is not something most people have heard of. Claire Newell, Marketing Manager at Mayvin was really interested in hearing how people found themselves working in this world we call OD. In asking our Mayvin consultants this question, Claire found their responses really interesting and really varied. In fact, she found it brought a little bit of what makes each of them so unique and special to ...
Feb 17, 2023•15 min
Send us a text In this episode, Claire Newell, Marketing Manager at Mayvin speaks to Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls . They talk about working "on" relationship and working "in" relationship in the workplace. And the difference between the two and how they can coexist. In their conversation, they touch on leadership versus management, power listening to truth , and the use of self as an instrumen t. As well as of course, why Mayvin sees relationships as the key to everything we do. Thanks so ...
Feb 06, 2023•23 min
Send us a text In today’s episode, founding Mayvin Director James Trager asks our Tony, aka Principal Consultant, Tony Nicholls , about his brand new book, Managing Change in Organizations. The conversation centres around the future of organizations in this podcast. Or is it the future of organising? Or is it the future of organisers? They talk about leaders and managers, the difference between the two and the merits of each term, the importance of a good deskside manner. Yep, you heard me right...
Nov 29, 2022•31 min
Send us a text 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, whet...
Nov 22, 2022•30 min
Send us a text 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 org...
Nov 11, 2022•33 min
Send us a text 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...
Oct 13, 2022•55 min
Send us a text 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...
Sep 08, 2022•37 min
Send us a text 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 ...
Aug 19, 2022•51 min
Send us a text 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 e...
Jul 29, 2022•58 min
Send us a text 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. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our websit...
Jul 14, 2022•40 min
Send us a text 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 intereste...
Apr 26, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text 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 you...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us a text 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. Thanks so much for liste...
Mar 09, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us a text 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...
Mar 03, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us a text 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 leader...
Feb 01, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us a text In this episode we 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 w...
Jan 07, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us a text 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. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Nov 05, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us a text Event 3/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our third group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Sarah Fraser. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Nov 02, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us a text Event 2/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our second group inquiry event hosted by Sarah Fraser and Tony Nicholls. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Nov 02, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us a text Event 1/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our first group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Tony Nicholls. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Nov 02, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Interview 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. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter...
Sep 15, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text This is the second in a series of 3 interviews with managers over mindfully moving towards new patterns of working. 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. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to ou...
Sep 08, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
