ADKAR Model - Free Template

The five ADKAR elements in order - Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement - each with its first-person test: the sentence people should be able to say honestly, like "I want to engage actively in this change".

A way to run the assessment: pick one specific change and the group it affects, have each person score the group 1 to 5 on each element, compare, and find the barrier point - the first element where the score drops. Plus the traps to watch for, like adding training to fix a desire problem.

It's a PDF, so you can print it for a working session or keep it beside you while you plan.

Run it as a team exercise on a specific, named change - "the new rostering system", not "our transformation". Have each person score the five elements independently first (1 to 5, using the first-person tests), then compare. The disagreements are the most useful part: they usually mean different groups are stuck at different stages.

Then respect the sequence. The barrier point is the first stage where readiness drops, and effort spent downstream of it is largely wasted - more training won't fix a desire problem. Most failed change initiatives skip straight to Knowledge without building enough Awareness and Desire first. Work on the earliest weak stage, reassess a few weeks later, and move forward from there.