Worksheet: Choose leads who have landed change before

Leads chosen because they were free learn on the job with nobody to ask. This sheet picks leads on their record and writes a buy, borrow or build plan for each missing skill. It builds the Competent step of the check:

Leads were chosen for having landed change before, and specialist help is brought in when a problem needs cracking.

Step 1. The leads

Workstream	Lead	Change they have landed before	Its size and year	Who they can call for help

Step 2. Missing skills

Skill the programme needs	In the business today?	Buy (hire), borrow (adviser or secondee) or build (train)	Date the business must do it alone
e.g. Pricing analytics	No	Borrow for six months; build one analyst alongside	End of year 1

Step 3. The brief for outside help

Adviser or specialist	Problem to crack	What stays with us when they leave	End date

Management owns the targets and the outcomes. Outside help brings problem-solving and challenge for a set time.

Done when: each lead has landed change before, and every missing skill has a written buy, borrow or build decision with a date.

Adapted from our own business transformation method (EY-PJP, 2022).