Kotter's 8 Step Change Model - Free Template

An overview of each of the eight steps with guiding questions to work through - so you can pressure-test a change campaign step by step instead of in the abstract.

A diagnostic checklist for assessing where your change initiative currently sits: which steps are genuinely done, which are half-done, and which have been skipped past. Most change efforts discover they're further back in the sequence than they thought - that finding alone is usually worth the session.

And space to plan your next actions at each stage, so the session ends with owned actions rather than general intentions. It's a PDF, so you can print it for a workshop wall or work through it on screen with your team.

Run it as a campaign-planning session with the people leading the change, not as a solo desk exercise. Work through the diagnostic honestly before planning anything new: score where your change actually sits against each step, and start wherever the earliest gap is - not where the programme plan says you should be. Start with Step 1 in particular; most change efforts underinvest in urgency and pay for it at every later step.

Use the guiding-coalition questions to pressure-test whether you have the right mix of people, not just the most senior ones. Then treat the checklist as reusable rather than one-off - re-run it every few months, because the step that needs attention moves as the campaign progresses.