The library
Every template here came out of a real rollout. You can view all of them without giving us anything — no form in front of the useful part. If you want the editable version to put your own change into, that's where we ask for an email.
Live
Stakeholder influence map
Influence × interest, colored by stance, with the engagement cadence each quadrant needs. Editable PowerPoint.
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Live
Change readiness assessment
Eight dimensions scored 1-5 per group. The lowest score is your plan, not the average. Editable Excel workbook.
Open template20 readiness questions
The question bank behind the scorecard, with scoring guidance.
Coming soonChange management plan
Plan template with a worked example.
Coming soonChange impact assessment
Impact by group, process and system.
Coming soonCommunication plan
Audience, message, channel, messenger, cadence.
Coming soonStakeholder analysis matrix
The tabular companion to the influence map.
Coming soonRACI matrix
RACI scoped for change work, not project tasks.
Coming soonChange saturation assessment
Portfolio-level: how much change one group is absorbing at once.
Coming soonHow to use these together
They're a sequence, not a menu.
Impact assessment first
You can't map stakeholders sensibly until you know which groups the change actually lands on, and how hard.
Then the influence map
Now that you know who's affected, work out who decides, who blocks, and who carries the message.
Then readiness, per group
Score the groups the impact assessment flagged. Use the 20 questions so the score means something.
Then the communication plan
Built from the map, so every message has a named audience and a stance you're trying to move — not a calendar of sends.
Re-score readiness monthly
Readiness is a moving number. A single pre-go-live assessment tells you almost nothing about where you'll be in six weeks.
If you only use two
Use the influence map and the readiness scorecard. They're the two that change what happens in a steering meeting.
A note on tools
These work in a spreadsheet. Genuinely. Where a spreadsheet stops working is when a second change lands on the same group, when someone asks for a readiness number in a meeting you're not in, and when a new owner inherits the file. That's what AlignHQ is for — but start with the templates.