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.