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Frank Awuku
Change Adoption advisory

Practical support for the person making the change work.

You may be getting teams ready for a new way of working, living with a rollout that is proving difficult or carrying several changes at once. I work alongside you to understand what your teams need, and to make the decisions that help the new way take hold.

RISE phases covered

  1. Readying
  2. Involving
  3. Supporting
  4. Embedding
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01Support across the life of a change

From the business case to long after go-live.

  • Before launch 01

    Team readiness

    Clarify what needs to change, which teams it affects and how prepared they really are.

    We look at leadership alignment, capability, capacity and the support people will need, and at the other demands already landing on the same teams.

    • Readiness review
    • Leadership alignment
    • Competing demands
  • Around go-live 02

    Adoption in practice

    In the first weeks after go-live, understand where the new way is taking hold and where people are struggling.

    We investigate the conditions behind a difficulty before choosing a response, so leaders act on causes rather than symptoms.

    • Early-life support
    • Investigate obstacles
  • After launch 03

    Sustained adoption

    Agree ownership, feedback and review before the programme team moves on.

    Help teams keep the practice going, bring new colleagues in and adapt when circumstances change.

    • Continuing adoption review
    • Ownership
  • Throughout 04

    Organisational capability

    Build the ability to lead and support change by working on a live initiative, not in a classroom.

    Managers learn to recognise problems, discuss competing demands and act on what they learn, and that capability stays when I leave.

    • Live-work learning
    • Capability transfer

The engagement may be focused advice, work alongside a team or continuing support for one leader. We agree the scope, rhythm and handover around the change you are responsible for.

02Processes, technology and AI

Understand what people are being asked to change.

My background in business analysis helps me connect the change you intend with the realities of the work people do.

I look at how tasks, decisions and handovers really happen, and investigate obstacles before recommending a response. When adoption is difficult, the cause is often one of these.

01

Unclear expectations

People are not sure what good looks like in the new way.

02

A system that gets in the way

The tool makes the task harder than the old way.

03

A decision nobody owns

Work stalls at a handover because no one can say yes.

04

More demand than capacity

The change competes with everything else the team must deliver.

That understanding shapes the adoption work: what needs attention, who can act and what support people need.

For AI-enabled change, my hands-on experience with AI tools helps us consider how judgement, review and responsibility change as the tool becomes part of everyday work.

03Clear responsibilities from the start

Agreed before we begin. Yours when we finish.

Agreed before the engagement begins

  • The problem we are solving
  • The intended outcomes
  • Scope and responsibilities, yours and mine
  • How we will review progress

What remains with your organisation

  • Clear ownership of the new way of working
  • A routine for feedback and review
  • Managers who can spot problems and act on them
  • A way to bring new colleagues into the practice

You work directly with me. If the scope needs additional specialist support, I will explain that in the proposal.

Is your rollout proving harder than the plan said it would be?

Tell me where you are, which teams are struggling and what needs to work differently. We will work out the most useful next step together.