Kinharvie

We believe in potential – the unrealised potential of you, your team, your organisation, your community.

We are passionate about creating safe and welcoming spaces where people, ideas, possibilities and relationships flourish. Individual or Team Coaching from Kinharvie - the secret to successfully meeting your professional challenges and maximising your opportunities through learning and development! Our organisational development efforts are all about facilitating change in individuals and organisat

ions. We work creatively, imaginatively and successfully in facilitating the challenges and opportunities facing people and organisations. Our experienced facilitators deliver highly effective training events designed to give you a leading edge in your individual and organisational learning and development goals.

10/03/2026

Leaders often talk about values.

We name them.
We write them down.
We place them prominently in strategies and on walls.

But the truest expression of our values rarely appears in those places.

It appears somewhere much more ordinary.

Our calendar.

Where our hours go, who receives our attention, what keeps getting moved, and what never quite finds space at all. In the quiet pattern of our days, a more honest picture of leadership begins to emerge.

In this short reflection I invite you to pause and take a look at your own diary. It may be the most revealing leadership document you produce all year.

Read the full blog here:

https://lnkd.in/eA-B8FNv

04/03/2026

Did you notice how March just crept up on us and suddenly we’re already a sixth of the way through the year?

At our Kinharvie team meeting this week, that thought sparked a reflection. During our check-in, I asked everyone:

“So far in 2026, what’s going well and what would be even better if?”

The conversation that followed was meaningful, honest and quietly revealing. Awareness is like that, what it illuminates can’t be unseen once it appears.

Leadership, I’m reminded, isn’t about having all the answers or propelling constant forward motion. It’s about pausing long enough to notice where we are and how we’re showing up. When we move without intention, we risk becoming efficient but directionless; busy without being purposeful.

Taking time to reflect isn’t indulgent; it’s leadership in practice.

Self-awareness creates choice, and with choice comes agency to recalibrate, realign, or recommit.

As March unfolds, I’m holding this question close:

👉 Am I leading my time, or is my time leading me?

You can read my full reflection here: https://www.kinharvie.org.uk/blog/a-sixth-of-the-way-there

24/02/2026

With the support of the RS MacDonald Trust we can offer our Insight Circle for First-time Managers to their awardees. Pay only £75 reduced from £495. Contact [email protected] for a discount code.

Stepping into management for the first time changes the ground beneath your feet.

You are no longer only responsible for your own work. You are shaping standards, tone, and confidence in others. That shift can feel heavy.

Our Insight Circle for First-Time Managers offers space to pause and see your role more clearly. You bring real situations. You reflect alongside others facing similar pressures. You build awareness that strengthens judgement and confidence.

You do not need more effort. You need clearer sight.

If you are new to management, or know someone who is, we invite you to join us.

Find out more and book here:
https://www.kinharvie.org.uk/courses/insight-circle-first-time-managers

13/02/2026

Most first-time managers are promoted because they are good at their job.

Then the role changes.

You move from delivering the work to leading others who deliver it. From being the expert to holding responsibility for performance, direction, and culture.

In our latest blog, we name the shift many people experience but few articulate. The internal move from expert to manager. The loss of certainty. The pull to step back into doing. The effort to prove yourself.

This is not a competence issue. It is an identity transition.

If you are in your first management role, or supporting someone who is, this will resonate.

Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/3MENEic

10/02/2026

Stepping into your first management role often brings pressure to try harder and do more.

This blog offers a different starting point. Not more effort. More awareness.

If you are a first-time manager, or support people who are, this is worth a few minutes of your time.

Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/4qr3LxG

04/02/2026

Stepping into your first management role changes how work feels.

You are no longer only doing the job - you are holding people, decisions, and impact.

Insight Circles offer first-time managers space to slow down and see their work more clearly. You bring real situations from your role. You work alongside others facing similar pressures.

Insight grows through shared reflection, not advice or techniques. When you see what is really going on, different choices open up.

We invite you to join our Insight Circle for First-Time Managers.

A small, in-person group focused on awareness, possibility, and confidence in how you lead.

https://www.kinharvie.org.uk/courses/insight-circle-first-time-managers

05/01/2026

Happy New Year!

End ineffective meetings in 2026!

Join us in for a , in-person taster - Making Meetings More Effective.

Two hours. Practical. Grounded.
15 Jan: 2pm-4pm
Places limited. Terms apply.

Start 2026 working differently.

https://bit.ly/4bf9Adx

03/10/2025

We invite you to step into this autumn.

Facilitation Essentials is our popular 2-day online course.

* Build confidence.
* Engage groups.
* Make every meeting count.

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31/07/2025

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Places still available on our taster course online - INTRODUCTION TO GESTALT COACHING.

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