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'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to his last week with us. Each episode will focus on a different topic, a different element of his time at Mayvin or his career at large.

In today's episode, Tony is joined by Carolyn Norgate as they look back at Tony's time with Mayvin and in particular, our accredited core practice programme, as that's how they first met. They talk about the impact the program has had on Tony's individual practice and approach with clients and Mayvin practice more generally, including leading to our latest offering of Kickstarter programs. 

Please do feel free to get in touch with us or Tony directly, if you'd like to pass on any well wishes for his R word. 

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'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to his last week with us. Each episode will focus on a different topic, a different element of his time at Mayvin or his career at large.

In today's episode, Tony is joined by Claire Newell, Marketing Manager and Abi Jackson, Senior Client Coordinator, to speak about management, a hot topic chosen because Tony is currently line manager to both! 

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'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to his last week with us. Each episode will focus on a different topic, a different element of his time at Mayvin or his career at large.

In today's episode, Tony is joined by our principal consultant, Carolyn Parker and Carolyn wanted to quiz Tony on his blunders and blinders. So blunders being things that have gone wrong over the years, and blinders being things that have gone exceptionally well. 

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Sophie Tidman and Anna Iles explore the potential of futures thinking in a BANI world. 

Anna is a futurist life coach and facilitator supporting empowered mindsets and resilient strategies in challenging contexts. She's worked for over 10 years with sustainability and systems change consultancies, Forum for the Future and business for social responsibility, and authored two books on innovative culture and strategy, most recently, the innovation friendly organization.

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'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to his last week with us. Each episode will focus on a different topic, a different element of his time at Mayvin or his career at large.

In today's episode, Tony is joined by our principal consultant, Ash Thomas. Ash asked our Tony, how do you talk about what OD is, and why do you think OD is needed in the world at the moment, and what do you think you've brought to the world of OD? 

Please do feel free to get in touch with us or Tony directly, if you'd like to pass on any well wishes for his R word. 

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This episode is part of a special new mini-series called Conversations with Tony. 

'Our' lovely Tony Nicholls has decided to ‘stop working’ from the end of March 2025. (He still finds it hard to use the ‘r’ word...). So we decided to make the most of him for these last few weeks that we have him . and try to bottle his wisdom and experience / milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10min episodes every week for the next 8 weeks – which will take us up to his last week. Each episode will focus on a different topic – a different element of his time at Mayvin and/or his career at large. 

In this first episode our CEO - Martin Saville asks Tony about his change in career from a background in sales and the corporate world and then transitioning into the world of OD. How was that transition and what did he hold onto as he moved from one world to the next! 

Please do feel free to get in touch with us or Tony directly if you would like to pass on any well wishes for his 'r' word.

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In today’s episode you can listen back to highlights from our mission-led government event, hosted by Sophie Tidman and Carolyn Norgate. Who offered up our thoughts on the theory vs reality of a mission-led government, with some frameworks, techniques and methodology for how to begin implementing this new approach into the living system of the civil service and beyond.

We were joined by lots of lovely members of our community for some rich discussions and sense-making around what we are noticing about the new government’s mission-led approach, what’s new, what’s different and the potential challenges are to working in this way. We’re hearing that there is real energy and appetite for change, but people don’t know how or where to start. How do we harness that energy instead of dousing it with the ‘cold bucket of water’ that can be the pressures of delivering on the day job too.

You will hear Sophie and Carolyn referring to some slides, if you would like a copy of the slides used at the event please just drop us a line and we’d be happy to send you a copy. 

If you work in the civil service, just to let you know we have some open and closed offerings on the government campus should you wish to delve deeper into this with us. 

If you would like to talk more on mission-led with us, or anything else, please don't hesitate to get in touch, we're always happy to have an informal chat. 

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In this episode we are thrilled to be joined by Kerry Smith - Chief People Officer and Julie Jones - Director of Talent and Organisational Development at the British Heart Foundation, who talk to Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser about the BHF's 'Leading Our Future' leadership development programme. Mayvin is very proud to have worked with BHF in the innovative design and delivery of this award nominated programme (the awards nights are coming up soon - please keep your fingers crossed!)

The programme included 120 senior leaders across the organisation and took place over approximately a year, including whole cohort community days, small peer group learning sets, collective inquiry events and 'masterclasses' on capability building.  

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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 consistency and efficiency. Ed stresses the importance of training AI to reflect organisational values and the need for human oversight to ensure AI's outputs align with strategic goals. They also discuss AI's role in cultural analysis and the iterative process of refining AI-generated insights.

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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 purposeful and hopeful and excited to see a shift happening. 

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