ADKAR is familiar territory for many improvement practitioners. Awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, reinforcement… a neat pathway to guide people through change. But what happens when you’ve ticked every box and adoption still falls short?
Join Laurence Restarick as he invites you to step back, think system-wide, and see change through a different lens, as he reframes ADKAR from a checklist to a diagnostic tool. Because sometimes resistance has less to do with people themselves, and more to do with the system they’re working within.
If change still isn’t landing the way you expected, it may be time to look more closely at where the friction really sits. Our change diagnostics help organisations explore whether the issue is awareness, desire, ability, or something deeper in the system.
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We know that to develop and sustain a strong continuous improvement culture, you must enable employees at all levels of the organisation to be involved in improvement initiatives.
This, of course, is more than a suggestion box scheme. To participate effectively in improvement projects and their implementation, they’ll need to share a common language and understanding of the process and tools that are being used.
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