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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 programme enhanced practice at multiple levels: individual, team and wider; plus the longer term impact he is seeing.

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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 encourage relationships across the team. Like our client interventions, this programme had no rigid framework, allowing the participants to decide together what they would explore. 

It involved learning with and through peers. It was focused on inquiry, not problem solving. And contains theory bursts, but only where appropriate to the exploration being undertaken. Kept the exploration close to the grain of our real work and uses Action Learning Sets. The programme is at the halfway mark. So the participants came together to reflect on their experience so far to share with you. And here it is, enjoy.

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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 share that conversation here for you to listen to. If you're interested in finding out more about the Masters, please do get in touch with us on [email protected]. We’re always happy to have a chat. Hope you enjoy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?".

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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

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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 the fore. 

So these short 10 to 15 minute podcasts are a quick way to get to know the varied paths and personalities of our wonderful consultants. In this first episode you can listen to the interview with Martin Saville founding director of Mayvin. We hope you enjoy it.

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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 instrument. As well as of course, why Mayvin sees relationships as the key to everything we do.

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