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title: 'Change Readiness'
description: 'Helps you understand how clear an upcoming change is to people and what support they need to move through it with less strain.'
type: template
locale: en
canonical: 'https://yoseno.com/templates/change_readiness'
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# Change Readiness

Helps you understand how clear an upcoming change is to people and what support they need to move through it with less strain.

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 6
- **Questions:** 15
- **Who to ask:** An employee or manager affected by a specific change
- **Topic:** Growth, recognition, changes

## When to run it

You are planning to introduce new processes, tools, or change the structure, but you fear resistance. Or perhaps a transformation is already underway but is stalling. This survey will help assess whether people understand the core of the changes, are ready to support them, and have the knowledge and skills to work the new way.

## What it will show

- **Awareness:** Understanding of the reasons, goals, and personal context of the change.
- **Desire to participate:** Personal readiness to support the change, based on benefit, relevance, and trust.
- **Knowledge:** Understanding of new rules, processes, roles, and sources of help.
- **Ability to apply:** Shows whether the team can actually work the new way in real conditions: with the necessary practice, resources, time, and support.
- **Reinforcement:** Shows whether the new behavior is sustained after launch, and whether old practices stop being more advantageous than the new ones.
- **AI readiness:** Understanding of AI's role, rules, risks, and practical applicability within the current change.

## Example questions

- I understand why the organization is launching this change and what outcome it expects from it.
  - **What it measures:** Check whether the respondent understands the reasons for the change and its expected outcome, without conflating this signal with agreement, motivation, knowledge, or practical readiness.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** What exactly remains unclear about the reasons or goals of the change?
- I see the real benefit this change could bring to my work or my team's results.
  - **What it measures:** Check whether the respondent sees a work-related or team benefit from the change, without conflating this signal with loyalty, trust in management, knowledge of details, or willingness to actively participate.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** Why does this change not currently look useful for your work or your team?
- It is clear to me exactly what is expected of me in my role after this change.
  - **What it measures:** Check whether the respondent knows which new actions, rules, or decisions apply specifically to their work after the change, without conflating this signal with motivation, resources, or practical skill.
  - **Scale endpoints:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Open-ended clarification:** Which expectations for your role currently remain unclear?

## What's in the report

The report will show the level of awareness about the changes, people’s actual desire to participate in them, as well as an assessment of their knowledge, ability to apply new skills in practice, and reinforcement of new habits. A separate scale shows readiness to use AI.

## Similar surveys

- [Career and Learning](https://yoseno.com/templates/career_learning.md) — Helps understand whether employees see clear opportunities for growth, learning, and development within the company.
- [Recognition and Compensation](https://yoseno.com/templates/recognition_compensation.md) — Helps understand whether employees feel that their contribution is recognized and that compensation is fair.