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Discover how teams can stay resilient during LGR. Explore uncertainty, identity, and practical ways to protect performance and culture.

Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating the complexities of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)?

LGR can bring significant uncertainty, identity challenges, and change fatigue to teams. While leaders work to provide clarity, it’s often the informal dynamics within teams that determine whether they thrive or struggle during transition. Understanding how teams support each other – and what they need to stay resilient – is critical to protecting performance and culture.

Join us for our Change Chat: "How Teams Support Each Other Through LGR (A Psychological Perspective)", an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will delve into the psychological dynamics of teams during LGR and provide practical tools to help teams navigate uncertainty together.

What You’ll Gain

This session will help you understand the hidden dynamics of team resilience during LGR and how to foster it effectively. We’ll cover:

• How uncertainty, identity threat, and change fatigue show up in teams during LGR
• The informal behaviours that make-or-break team resilience
• What teams need from each other when leaders don’t yet have answers
• Practical ways teams can protect performance and culture through transition

Why Attend?

LGR isn’t just about restructuring systems or roles – it’s about how people adapt and support each other through uncertainty. Teams that understand the psychological dynamics of change are better equipped to maintain trust, collaboration, and performance during challenging times.

This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to help your teams navigate LGR with resilience and empathy.

Leave feeling better equipped to support your teams through transition – and ready to foster a culture that thrives, even in uncertainty.

Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating the complexities of organisational transformation?

Change can be challenging - not just because of the structural shifts, but because of the human responses it triggers. Resistance, anxiety, and disengagement are common reactions, but they’re often misunderstood.

Join us for our Change Chat: "Your Psychology Toolkit for Leading Change", an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will introduce you to three essential psychological tools that every change leader should understand to lead with confidence and clarity.

What You’ll Gain

This session will help you understand the psychological side of change and how to lead through it effectively. We’ll cover:

• Why people react to change in ways leaders don’t always expect
• Understanding the psychological processes behind resistance, anxiety, and disengagement — and why these responses are often rational reactions to uncertainty.
• Three psychological concepts that change how leaders approach transformation
• Practical ideas from organisational psychology that help leaders better understand behaviour, motivation, and group dynamics during periods of change.
• How small shifts in leadership approach can reduce resistance
• Exploring how communication, decision-making, and leader behaviour can either escalate anxiety or help people stay engaged and adaptive.
• Practical tools leaders can apply immediately
• Simple ways leaders can use psychological insight to create clarity, maintain trust, and help teams navigate uncertainty more effectively.

Why Attend?

Leading change isn’t just about managing processes - it’s about understanding people. Leaders who grasp the psychological side of change are better equipped to reduce resistance, build trust, and keep their teams engaged during times of uncertainty.

This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to lead with empathy and effectiveness.

Are you a leader, manager, or change professional trying to shape culture during organisational transformation?

Culture is often misunderstood during change. It’s not created by strategy documents or values posters -  it’s built through the behaviours, signals, and everyday experiences of your people.

Join us for our Change Chat: "Designing the Culture You Actually Need", an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will explore why culture doesn’t change just because strategy says it should - and how leaders can intentionally shape the culture their organisation truly needs.

What You’ll Gain

This session will help you understand the real drivers of culture and how to influence them effectively. We’ll cover:

• Why culture is often misunderstood during organisational change
• Exploring why culture isn’t created by statements, values posters, or strategy documents - but by the behaviours and signals people experience every day.
• What really happens when organisations merge
• Looking at the cultural dynamics that emerge when teams, services, or entire organisations come together - including competing norms, leadership expectations, and “how things are done here.”
• The leadership behaviours that shape culture most strongly
• Understanding how everyday decisions, communication, and leadership responses reinforce — or unintentionally undermine - the culture organisations are trying to build.
• How leaders can intentionally shape culture during change
• Practical ways organisations can influence the behaviours, expectations, and working relationships that will define the culture of the future organisation.
  

Why Attend?

Culture isn’t just a buzzword - it’s the invisible force that drives how people work together, solve problems, and deliver results. Leaders who understand how culture is truly shaped are better equipped to create environments where people and organisations thrive.

This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to design the culture your organisation actually needs.

Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)?

Structural change is only half the story. The real challenges often lie in the human factors: the leadership tensions, cultural friction, and psychological impact that accompany large-scale transformation.

Join us for our Change Chat: "LGR & the Human Factor", an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will explore the hidden dynamics of LGR and provide practical insights to help leaders support their people through the transition.

What You’ll Gain

This session will help you understand the human side of LGR and how to navigate it effectively. We’ll cover:

• What we’re learning from councils already moving through LGR
• Real experiences from organisations navigating Local Government Reorganisation, including the leadership challenges and cultural tensions that often sit behind structural change.
• Why structural change is only half the story
• The psychological impact of large-scale reorganisation - including uncertainty, identity shifts, and resistance - and why these human responses shape whether transformation succeeds or stalls.
• The hidden dynamics between merging organisations
• How differences in culture, leadership style, and organisational history show up when councils begin working more closely together - and why these factors matter more than many expect.
• What leaders can do to support people through the transition
• Practical insights into how leaders can create stability, clarity, and trust during periods where not everything is known or decided.
  

   

  Why Attend?

LGR isn’t just about restructuring systems or merging teams - it’s about navigating the human complexities that determine whether transformation succeeds. Leaders who understand these dynamics are better equipped to build trust, manage uncertainty, and foster collaboration during times of change.

This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to lead through LGR with confidence and clarity.

Leave feeling better equipped to support your people, shape a cohesive culture, and guide your organisation through transformation.