The Mayvin Podcast

Oct 23 2024 48 ep. 31 mins 3
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Mayvin is a Leadership and Organisation Development (OD) consultancy, founded in 2010. We are based in the South East of the UK and work globally across the public, private and third sectors. Our purpose is to make organisations more successful by helping them to: confront the complexity of organisational life, understand their people & what interests, motivates, worries and inspires them, work with human relationships to create meaningful & sustainable change (change management) and to develop leadership and management practice. We aspire to nurture the human spirit in organisations. We work with people to enable cultural change and build organisational wisdom. #HR #ChangeManagement #LeadershipDevelopment #OrganisationalDevelopment

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The Research Hub Podcast: AI and the Future of Work

Oct 23 2024 39 mins  
Sarah Fraser and Ed Shrager discuss the integration of AI into organisational practices. Ed highlights AI's potential in streamlining data crunching and reducing human bias, emphasizing its role in enhancing human collaboration rather than replacing it. They explore AI's use in job description creation, leveraging generative AI with retrieval augmentation (RAG) to improve consisten

Post Election - Leadership in a New Era

Aug 12 2024 36 mins  
In today's episode, we have all the Carolyns, Carolyn Norgate and Carolyn Parker got together after our event leadership in a new era to discuss what came up and the insights we gleaned from it. We hosted the event just three weeks after the election, as we were already noticing a change in the ask from our clients with the new Labour government, our guests talked about feeling pur

Transitioning to self-management

Jul 31 2024 45 mins  
In today’s episode our very own Operations Team talk about being a self-managed team.Our operations team cover a wide range of responsibilities (such as accounting, compliance, HR, programme accreditation and client management). They are the rhythm and base of Mayvin, which helps us to do our best work with clients.As Mayvin has grown, our operations team has grown too, and until

Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 3 - How Does the Hybrid Workplace Balance Productivity and Creativity?

Jul 03 2024 34 mins  
Carolyn Norgate and James Traeger discussed the challenges of leading in a world with increasing ambiguity, particularly in the post-pandemic workplace. They emphasised the importance of trust, culture, and leadership in creating a productive and engaged workforce, and highlighted the need for organisations to prioritise creating conditions that foster trust, creativity, and safety

How can you deliver impactful development when you don't have time?

May 16 2024 34 mins  
In this episode Our Principal Consultants Tony Nicholls and Carolyn Norgate talk all things programmes – when is a programme not a programme? A client came to us recently saying ‘we don’t have time or budget for a traditional programme and we have a large number of colleagues to reach. Could Mayvin create something with impact using just two short sessions?' The answer was ye

Why OD - the importance of relationships, at our core we all want to connect

Apr 11 2024 23 mins  
In this podcast episode, Carolyn Parker discusses her journey into OD and her excitement about joining the Mayvin team. She shares her background in psychology and HR, emphasizing the importance of pausing, reflecting, and fostering human connections in organisations. Carolyn highlights OD's focus on improving performance and relationships, as well as the personal and professional

Why OD - For Ash it's about finding basic humanity in every situation

Mar 27 2024 25 mins  
Today we're joined by Ash Thomas, previously with the British Heart Foundation and now a principal consultant at Mayvin. We're revisiting our mini-series "Why OD" to delve into Ash's unique journey into organisation development.Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on [email protected] Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

The Future of Organising

Mar 14 2024 37 mins  
Join Sarah Fraser and Steve Hearsum in this podcast episode as they talk about their time teaching a module on organisational change. They discuss the challenges of planning for the future when it's uncertain and touch on power dynamics, the need for sharing power, and the role of human behavior in shaping organisations. They share some surprising moments, like the idea of a group

Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 2 - “Let Me Give You Some Feedback” - The Discomfort Of Positive Feedback

Feb 28 2024 25 mins  
In our latest Mayvin Sofa Chats episode, Sophie Tidman and Tony Nicholls, are back for more talk about feedback. This time, they're chatting about how to handle positive feedback and why it can be tricky. Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on [email protected] Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 1 - "Let me give you some feedback" - Moving beyond the fear response

Jan 18 2024 28 mins  
In our first Mayvin Sofa Chats episode, our principal consultants, Sophie Tidman and Tony Nicholls, sit down for a chat about feedback. They talk about how to give feedback, what it is, and share their own stories.Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on [email protected] Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter