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60 min 5 activities InsightPlanningReflection

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.

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Workshop Goal

The Problem

Establish change context, surface readiness and concerns, explore adoption trade-offs, generate support actions, and prioritize next steps.

What You'll Achieve
  • 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
Facilitator Value

Safe For The Office™ handles the technology, timing, and participant experience. You focus on the conversation.

Workshop Timeline

A step-by-step structure for the full 60-minute session.

  1. Icebreaker Experience 8 min
    Establish 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."
  2. Team Polls 12 min
    Surface 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.
  3. Would You Rather 10 min
    Explore adoption trade-offs and change preferences.
    Do not characterize participants as resistant. WYR reveals preferences, not defiance. Listen without defensiveness.
  4. Idea Storm 12 min
    Generate 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.
  5. Priority Poker 12 min
    Prioritize 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?"
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