Why ADKAR Needs SOPK

About this episode

Laurence Restarick discusses reframing ADKAR as a diagnostic tool for better understanding change resistance.

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 t...

People in this episode

Host: Laurence Restarick

Topics covered

• change management
• ADKAR
• SOPK
• organizational change
• diagnostic tools

Keywords

• ADKAR
• SOPK
• change adoption
• resistance to change
• improvement practitioners

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ADKAR, Process Management International

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