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The 60-Minute
Change Plan
A workshop-in-a-box for AI and technology rollouts. Get the right people in one room for one hour — and walk out with a credible, complete change management plan. No methodology paralysis.
From £395 · instant download · or £495 with a generated plan for your rollout
Designed for
Who needs the
60-Minute Change Plan?
Anyone responsible for making an AI or technology rollout actually land with people. If you've been handed the adoption problem — with or without the words "change management" in your job title — this kit gives you the method, the materials and the confidence to run the room.
Get the kit →Change practitioners
Change managers who need to hit the ground running and produce an effective plan fast — without spending six weeks servicing a methodology.
Project & programme managers
Delivery leads whose AI rollout has a technical plan and no adoption plan — and who need to close that gap in a week, not a quarter.
HR & people partners
People teams facing the human questions AI deployments raise — job impact, monitoring, skills — who need a structured way to plan the answers.
Sponsors & team leaders
Leaders who own the outcome and want a plan they can defend in front of their peers — with every activity traceable to a business result.
The method
Seven steps. One workshop. Sixty minutes.
Every artefact connects to the one before it: objectives serve outcomes, tactics serve objectives for specific stakeholders, every tactic carries a message, every action delivers a tactic. That traceability is what makes the plan credible — and editable when reality bites.
1
Define the Outcomes
2
Set the Objectives
3
Identify the Stakeholders
4
Define the Key Messages
5
Develop the Tactics
6
Set the Actions
7
Assemble the Plan
The kit
What's inside the kit
Everything needed to prepare, facilitate and write up the workshop — plus a complete worked example so you can see exactly what good looks like before you run your own.
Facilitator's Guide
The full method in one document: who to invite, how to prepare, and a playbook for each of the seven steps — timeboxes, facilitation scripts, what good looks like, failure modes, and dedicated AI-rollout guidance throughout.
- Seven step-by-step playbooks with timeboxes
- AI resistance patterns field reference
- After-the-workshop: write-up, socialising, measuring adoption
PDF · 16 pages
Workshop Slide Deck
A ready-to-present deck you project while facilitating — ground rules, the clock, and a slide per step with prompts, quality tests and AI-specific guidance. Speaker notes carry the facilitation script.
- 12 slides, one per phase of the hour
- Facilitator speaker notes on every slide
- Fully editable and brandable
PowerPoint · editable
Six Planning Templates
The templates that turn the workshop walls into the plan: stakeholder map with automatic prioritisation, tactics matrix with intervention-type balance check, action tracker, self-drawing milestone timeline, change plan on a page and message house.
- Four Excel templates with built-in logic
- Two Word templates for the plan narrative
- Each ships blank plus a worked-example tab
Excel & Word · editable
Worked Case Study
A complete end-to-end example: an AI-assisted order processing rollout across four business units, with every step's output filled in — outcomes, objectives, a prioritised stakeholder map, message house, full tactics matrix, action tracker and milestone plan.
- Every template completed, with facilitator's notes
- Handles job-impact and monitoring questions head-on
- Use it as a training pack for your workshop group
PDF · 8 pages
45 seconds
Watch: the plan, explained
Seven steps, one workshop — or a generated plan for your rollout in minutes.
See it before you buy
What a generated plan looks like
Real excerpts from a plan generated for a fictional logistics company rolling out an AI route-planning assistant to 85 dispatchers across four depots — including one depot still bruised by a failed system rollout. Some content is redacted here; your plan arrives complete.
Sample · DispatchAI rollout
Executive summary
DispatchAI will succeed or fail not on the quality of its route algorithms but on whether 85 dispatchers — currently sceptical, and in one depot actively wary after the 2024 TMS withdrawal — choose to work with it. This plan treats that choice as the central deliverable. The sequencing follows a staged pattern across the four depots with the most cautious site handled on its own track, and the informal influencers brought inside the programme before the first wave lands rather than managed from outside it.
1Outcomes
| # | Outcome | Observable how? |
|---|---|---|
| O1 | Dispatchers use DispatchAI as their default first step in route planning, with manual-only planning becoming the exception within 90 days of go-live. | Route acceptance data shows AI-initiated routes ≥90% of all planned routes across all four depots by day 90 — a neutral observer could pull this report without asking anyone. |
| O2 | Team leaders use the new visibility in a way dispatchers experience as coaching, measured directly rather than assumed, at every one of the four depots. | A recurring staff measure holding above an agreed threshold at two checkpoints in every depot. |
| O3 | The quality relationship between dispatchers and the assistant matures along the expected curve instead of failing in either of the two expensive directions. | A pair of operational signals read together, with one specific pattern treated as a warning rather than a success. |
4Message house
The core message — the sponsor's lift sentence
“DispatchAI handles the routine so our dispatchers can focus on the judgement calls — and together we will deliver faster, more reliably for our customers.”
| # | Message | Primary audiences |
|---|---|---|
| M2 | The dashboard shows work flow, not individual surveillance — here is exactly what is recorded, who sees it, and the written policy on how it may and may not be used. | Dispatchers · team leaders |
| M3 | An honest, specific answer to the role question — what changes, what stays yours, and which commitment is put in writing before the first wave rather than after it. | Dispatchers · senior staff |
5Tactics matrix — 17 tactics in the full plan; four shown
| Obj. | Stakeholder | Tactic | Type | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C3 | Dispatchers | Error feedback loop: in-app report → 48-hour triage → weekly “you said, we fixed” post with credit to reporters. | Reinforce | Weekly, permanent |
| C4 | Team leaders | A specific intervention sequenced deliberately before leaders receive something the programme gives them — with measures agreed on both sides first. | Enable | Once per depot, before go-live |
| C5 | One named depot | A distinct engagement track that opens by acknowledging the previous failed rollout directly instead of talking around it, backed with senior presence and extra support. | Involve | From week 1 |
| C2 | Senior dispatchers | The informal opinion leaders given a defined, valued role inside the rollout — converting the people the floor actually watches, rather than lecturing them. | Involve | Weeks 1–4, then monthly |
Redacted sections are shown blurred to protect the method's working detail — your plan arrives complete and unredacted, with all seven steps: outcomes, objectives, an 8–12 group stakeholder map, message house, the full tactics matrix, first-four-weeks actions, timeline to go-live +90 days, and a pre-mortem. The kit's worked case study follows the same structure.
The case for planning adoption
AI rollouts fail on the human side
Most AI deployments don't fail technically. They fail when the people whose Monday changes quietly decide not to change with it. And AI raises questions previous technology never did — about jobs, monitoring and trust — that a communications calendar cannot answer.
The 60-Minute Change Plan exists because the alternative — weeks of methodology paralysis producing a glorified comms plan — costs more and lands worse. One structured hour with the right people produces the essential plan; the write-up afterwards is clerical.
The job question
"Is this replacing us?"
Job-loss anxiety is present in every AI deployment, whether or not anyone says it out loud. The kit builds an honest, written answer into the plan from week one.
The monitoring question
"Is this watching me?"
AI tools generate data about their own use. Handled badly, adoption analytics become surveillance — and the measurement system becomes the resistance driver.
The trust question
Blind trust & blanket distrust
Both fail expensively: unchecked AI errors reach customers, or everyone re-does the work and the business case evaporates. Trust calibration is planned, not hoped for.
The supervisor question
The most underestimated group
First-line supervisors decide the tool's reputation within a fortnight. The kit treats them as a primary change audience — not a channel for the newsletter.
Getting started
Three steps from purchase to plan
Buy and download instantly
Complete checkout and receive the full kit immediately — guide, deck, templates and case study. Read the guide and worked example in an evening.
Prepare and run the workshop
Two hours of preparation, five to nine people, one wall, one hour. The deck and playbooks carry you through every timebox — including what to do when it goes sideways.
Write up and run the plan
Transcribe the walls into the templates within 48 hours — the thinking is done, so it's clerical. Then run the plan with the review rhythms the guide sets out.
Investment
Less than an hour of
consulting time.
A change management consultant producing this plan for you would take days and cost thousands. The kit gives you the same method those consultants use — built from decades of running technology change — for a fixed £395.
Rolling out AI more broadly? The kit pairs naturally with the AI Adoption Roadmap — the strategy and the adoption plan, together.
The Kit — do it yourself
£395
ex. VAT · instant download
- Facilitator's Guide (PDF, 16pp)
- Workshop slide deck with speaker notes (PPTX)
- Six editable planning templates (Excel & Word)
- Fully worked AI-rollout case study (PDF)
- AI resistance patterns field reference
Generated Plan + Kit — head start included
£495
ex. VAT · plan generated in minutes · everything in the kit included
- A tailored draft change management plan for your rollout — built on the 60-Minute Change Plan method
- Outcomes, objectives, stakeholder map, message house, full tactics matrix, actions & timeline
- Answers a 10-minute intake about your initiative, people and constraints
- The complete kit included — validate the draft with your team in one workshop
- Delivered to your inbox within minutes of purchase
Want a senior practitioner to review the plan or facilitate the workshop? Book a discovery call.
Questions
Common questions
Four components: a facilitator's guide covering the full seven-step method with playbooks and timeboxes; a ready-to-present workshop slide deck with speaker notes; six editable planning templates (stakeholder map, tactics matrix, action tracker, milestone timeline, change plan on a page and message house); and a fully worked case study showing every template completed for an AI rollout.
No. The kit is written for project managers, transformation leads, HR partners and team leaders as much as for change practitioners. Every step has a timebox, a facilitation script, quality tests and the failure modes to watch for. If you can run a meeting, you can run this workshop.
The seven-step method works for any technology, process or policy change. What makes this kit distinctive is the dedicated AI guidance woven through every step — job-impact messaging, usage-monitoring transparency, trust calibration and supervisor enablement — because those are the questions AI deployments raise that older methods never had to answer.
The guide and case study are PDFs. The workshop deck is PowerPoint and the six templates are Excel and Word — all fully editable, brandable and compatible with Google Workspace.
Your delivery email contains a permanent link to your plan and downloads — bookmark it. If you ever lose it, go to aphelionsolutions.com/my-plans, enter your purchase email, and we'll send you a secure sign-in link. No password needed.
Yes, two ways. The Generated Plan tier (£495) produces a tailored draft plan for your rollout in minutes — answer a ten-minute intake and receive the full seven-step plan, with the kit included to validate it. And our change management consultancy embeds alongside programme teams, reviews generated plans and facilitates the workshop itself.
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The kit gets your adoption plan in place. Our change management consultancy and AI transformation programmes put senior expertise behind the delivery.
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