Free Tools & Resources
Change is hard enough without starting from scratch every time. These tools are free to use and built around the frameworks I use in practice - each one designed to give you something useful within a single session. If a tool raises more questions than it answers, that's often a sign there's something worth exploring. The Execution Gap Diagnostic Conversation is a good next step.
Change Risk Tool
An interactive diagnostic that helps you understand the scale and risk profile of your change initiative. Evaluates your situation against Prosci-aligned principles and identifies potential barrier points before they cause delays – without the guesswork.
Useful For...
1. Understanding the change
- start here if you're trying to get clear on what you're dealing with before you commit to a plan.
Personal Change Readiness Assessment Tool
A short, honest check-in on your personal readiness for change. Useful before a major transition – or when you're not quite sure why a current one feels harder than it should.
Useful For...
1. Understanding the change
- start here if you're trying to get clear on what you're dealing with before you commit to a plan.
Change Impact Assessment Tool
Understand who is affected by your change, how significantly, and where the friction is likely to emerge. A structured way to get ahead of stakeholder resistance and avoid the surprises that derail otherwise well-planned initiatives.
Useful For...
1. Understanding the change
- start here if you're trying to get clear on what you're dealing with before you commit to a plan.
Change Action Plan on a Page
Condense your change plan into a single, shareable page. Useful for establishing clarity on priorities, accountabilities, and milestones — particularly when a team needs to move quickly and can't afford a plan that no one actually reads.
Useful For...
2. Planning and leading change
- Use these once you know what the change is and need to organise how to lead it.
Change Conversation (CLARC) Tool
Prepare for a difficult change conversation before you walk into the room. The CLARC framework gives you the right structure, questions, and language to move people from pushback to genuine commitment. Built on the Prosci® CLARC framework, applied by a Certified Change Practitioner.
Useful For...
2. Planning and leading change
- Use these once you know what the change is and need to organise how to lead it.
Left Hand Column Tool
Look at a difficult conversation twice — once for what was actually said and once for what you were really thinking but kept to yourself. Grounded in the work of Chris Argyris and Donald Schön. Useful when a specific exchange is still nagging at you, or a pattern keeps showing up across conversations that shouldn't be this hard.
Useful For...
3. Reflecting on what's happening
- Use these when a change is stalling, or when you want to understand what's really going on beneath the surface.
ADKAR Reflection Tool
Walk through the five building blocks of individual change and identify where your own commitment – or your team's – is breaking down. Grounded in the Prosci® ADKAR model.
Useful For...
3. Reflecting on what's happening
- Use these when a change is stalling, or when you want to understand what's really going on beneath the surface.
Reflection Toolkit
Structured reflection exercises for leaders and teams to evaluate what's working, what isn't, and why. Useful after a change phase wraps up — or when a current one is stalling, and you need to understand what's really going on beneath the surface.
Useful For...
3. Reflecting on what's happening
- Use these when a change is stalling, or when you want to understand what's really going on beneath the surface.
The Knowing-Doing Self-Check
Based on Pfeffer and Sutton's work, this simple check helps you to see where the Knowing Doing Gap is widest in your organisation.
Useful For...
3. Reflecting on what's happening
- Use these when a change is stalling, or when you want to understand what's really going on beneath the surface.
Need something more tailored?
These tools work well for self-directed exploration. If you're dealing with something more complex - a stalled initiative, a resistant team, or a change that isn't landing the way it should – a conversation is often the fastest way to get clarity.
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Dealing with a decision dispute rather than a change initiative?
Not every organisational problem is a change management problem. If your teams are persistently disagreeing over the same workforce figures, risk assessments, or resource bids — and no amount of process improvement or stakeholder engagement has resolved it — the issue may be systemic decision variance rather than resistance or misalignment.
That requires a different kind of diagnostic tool: one that measures the noise in your system rather than the readiness of your people.