Why ADKAR Needs SOPK

Uncommon Sense - Tools to Improve your Work Forever

Uncommon Sense - Tools to Improve your Work Forever
Why ADKAR Needs SOPK
Jun 09, 2026 Season 1 Episode 97
Process Management International (PMI)

ADKAR is familiar territory for many improvement practitioners. Awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, reinforcement… a neat pathway to guide people through change. But what happens when you’ve ticked every box and adoption still falls short?

Join Laurence Restarick as he invites you to step back, think system-wide, and see change through a different lens, as he reframes ADKAR from a checklist to a diagnostic tool. Because sometimes resistance has less to do with people themselves, and more to do with the system they’re working within.

 

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