Preparing a change programme
Provides a stakeholder readiness baseline before a change programme begins. Highlights where support is established, where attitudes are uncertain and where resistance could threaten adoption.
— Operations & Process
Change readiness & adoption risk assessor
Scores every stakeholder on influence, attitude and impact, classifies them from champion to blocker, and designs the engagement plan with message and channel for each.
- Operations & Process
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1 week → ~25 minutes
For a full population, not a sample
No coding required
- Input
- Stakeholder list and organisational roles
- Output
- Stakeholder readiness and adoption risk assessment
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1 week per run
— USE CASES
What people use Change readiness & adoption risk assessor for
Focusing limited engagement resources
Identifies stakeholders whose influence and exposure to change warrant particular attention. Provides tailored messages and channels to make engagement effort proportionate to adoption risk.
Mobilising support for change
Distinguishes champions and supporters from stakeholders who remain neutral or opposed. Defines engagement priorities that help teams activate credible advocates and address resistance.
Briefing programme sponsors
Presents the distribution of stakeholder support and resistance alongside the adoption risk map. Gives sponsors a clear view of engagement priorities and the rationale behind them.
What it works from
- Stakeholder list and organisational roles
- Stakeholder influence assessments
- Stakeholder attitudes towards the change
- Assessments of the change's impact on each stakeholder
What you get back
- Stakeholder readiness and adoption risk assessment
- Stakeholder classifications by level of support or resistance
- Visual distribution of stakeholder classifications
- Adoption risk map highlighting engagement priorities root causes
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Change readiness & adoption risk assessor produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Every row of the end-to-end process
Each row of your export is processed on the same basis, so no process step is skipped however long the table is.
The pattern charted
Movement across the end-to-end process is visualised from the computed data, so the trend is legible at a glance.
Composed as work product
Findings on the end-to-end process are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a process step.
Each process step enriched in place
Derived columns are added row by row, keeping your source data and the judgement about each process step side by side.
Why this is expensive by hand
Change programmes often treat stakeholder engagement as a communications exercise, leaving influential resistance and uneven readiness poorly understood. Preparing a change programme is the typical trigger — provides a stakeholder readiness baseline before a change programme begins. Highlights where support is established, where attitudes are uncertain and where resistance could threaten adoption. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 1 week of experienced attention.
How this Skill produces it
Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is stakeholder readiness and adoption risk assessment, with stakeholder classifications by level of support or resistance. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: 1 week down to ~25 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Operations and continuous improvement leads
- Transformation and automation teams
- Service delivery and shared services managers
- Consultants running process diagnostics
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Change readiness & adoption risk assessor exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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