ADKAR Model - Free Template

A breakdown of each of the five ADKAR stages, with three things for every stage: diagnostic questions to assess where people currently sit, the common barriers that stall progress at that stage, and practical actions to move people forward.

Together they turn ADKAR from a model you've read about into an assessment you can run. Work through the questions for a specific change and a specific group, and the barrier point - the first stage where readiness drops - shows itself.

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 work through the diagnostic questions independently first (a simple 1-5 score for each stage works well), 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.