Hi ,

Here is the scenario most change managers do not talk about openly.

The baseline assessment at project initiation looked solid.

The early stakeholder conversations were positive.

The communication plan was running on schedule.

And then, six weeks before Go-Live, a critical user group surfaced with concerns that suggested they had barely absorbed the first communication sent ten weeks ago.

It was not a communication failure.

It was a cadence failure.

A single readiness assessment at the start of a project is a photograph of the organization at one moment in time.

It tells you nothing about the drift that builds between measurement points, the resistance that accumulates quietly in the middle phases, or the proficiency gap that will not show up in anyone's reporting until the first day on the new system.

In our latest post, we break down the Pulse Check Cadence framework for OCM practitioners, including the five structured assessment stages that should be built into every project timeline from initiation through post-Go-Live normalization, the between-assessment sensing system that ensures critical readiness shifts are never invisible for more than a few days, and how to frame recurring readiness assessments to project sponsors as a risk management investment rather than an additional overhead.

The projects that achieve the highest adoption rates are not the ones that checked readiness once and hoped for the best.

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