ADKAR Model - Explained
What is the ADKAR Model?
Written by J. Mance Gordon
Updated at April 22nd, 2024
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What is the ADKAR model?
The ADKAR Model is an approach to effective people management during change.
ADKAR is an acronym as follows:
- Awareness of the need to change.
- Desire to participate and support the change.
- Knowledge of how to change (and what the change looks like).
- Ability to implement the change on a day-to-day basis.
- Reinforcement to keep the change in place.
The ADKAR model calls for scoring the status of each of the 5 elements from 1-10, as part of the organizational change process.
It allows managers to focus on the low-rated elements.