Change Readiness Workshop
Teams experiencing organizational change, change leaders, project teams, managers
Establish change context, surface readiness and concerns, explore adoption trade-offs, generate support actions, and prioritize next steps.
Workshop Goal
Establish change context, surface readiness and concerns, explore adoption trade-offs, generate support actions, and prioritize next steps.
- Establish the change context and create space for honest conversation
- Surface readiness levels and concerns
- Explore adoption trade-offs
- Generate support actions and enablers
- Prioritize the next steps
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Workshop Timeline
A step-by-step structure for the full 60-minute session.
- Icebreaker Experience 8 minEstablish the change context and create safety for honest conversation.Change sessions require safety. Open with: "We're here to understand where we are, not to judge how anyone feels about the change."
- Team Polls 12 minSurface readiness levels, concerns, and current understanding of the change.Results are aggregate only. Do not expose individual answers. Focus on clarity, communication, support, and involvement.
- Would You Rather 10 minExplore adoption trade-offs and change preferences.Do not characterize participants as resistant. WYR reveals preferences, not defiance. Listen without defensiveness.
- Idea Storm 12 minGenerate support actions, enablers, and ideas for making the change work.Focus on what would help the team succeed with the change — not on whether the change should happen.
- Priority Poker 12 minPrioritize the next steps and most important support actions.After reveal: "This is what the team said needs to happen next. Who owns each of these?"
Facilitator Guide
Key Notes
- Do not characterize participants as resistant to change.
- Do not expose individual answers. Keep Poll and WYR results aggregate-only.
- Focus on clarity, communication, support, involvement, and reinforcement.
- Facilitator guidance must emphasize listening without defensiveness.
- Close by naming who owns each priority action.
Discussion Tips
- What would make this change easier for the team to adopt?
- What information or support is missing that would help us move forward?
- What's the one thing that would most increase our confidence in this change?
Closing Prompts
- "What's one thing you're committing to do to support this change?"
- "What's one thing you need from leadership to succeed with this change?"
Delivered Through Workshop Plans
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