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Mayvin - A specialist Leadership and Organisational Development company
Mayvin /‘meIvIn/ def: [also Maven - Yiddish/Hebrew]: ‘trusted expert in a particular field’
What We Do
Pathway to your success
Here is a simple model that shows how we add value in each phase of our work: as we get to know our clients’ businesses (Stage 1), as we apply a range of tools that suit them (Stage 2), and as we leave clients with their own internal learning and development capacity increased (Stage 3).
Articles
Why has Organisational Development failed people and organisations?
Martin Saville and James Traeger challenge Organisational Development professionals (including themselves) to step up and play a bolder game and offer their insights on how to achieve this.
More articlesView our track recordJames has supported the Council’s high performance team initiative since 2004, using a full range of one-to-one and team-based work. This support has undoubtedly been a key factor in the transformation of a previously inexperienced senior management team into a highly effective group and improved the awareness and effectiveness of the individuals within it. Over this timeframe, the organisation has moved from a poor performing authority to one that is recognised as well managed, with a senior management team that clearly works well together and has developed a track record of meeting the challenges the public sector has been facing. James has a finely tuned sense of the way teams and individuals operate and is able to express his OD insights in ways that busy, practically minded and sometimes cynical managers can ‘work with’.”
Richard Hodson, Assistant Chief Executive (UK Local Authority)
Mayvin Insights
The world is full of customers, clients and opportunities.
Like a weather system, the world is not predictable.
In human systems, the heart matters as much as the head.
The physical body matters as much as the heart.
Knowledge is not absolute - people’s perspectives and contexts matter.
There are different types of knowledge - insights and feelings matter as much as clear-headed reasoning.
People’s stories about what is going on matter more than the ‘objective’ truth.
Relationships, connections and politics matter.
Repeating patterns matter.
Diversity is a business-critical issue, not just an ethical one.
The world is ever-changing, messy and not always as it seems, but it is possible to find moments of clarity when the way forward suddenly becomes clear.