What is it?
Force field analysis is a technique for identifying the forces that help or obstruct a change you want to make.
When to use it
- Identifying the forces which assist or prevent you achieving a change
- Assessing the ease or difficulty in achieving a change
- Planning to overcome barriers to change
What does it achieve?
Given situations, which you need to change or improve, force filed analysis enables you, or a group of people, to achieve that change. By assessing the forces, which prevent you making a change, or improvement, you are able to develop a plan to deal with those forces. There will be forces, which help you as well as those which hinder you.
Once the positive and negative forces acting on a situation have been identified you will be able to assess the ease or difficulty when implementing a change.
Key steps
- Define the problem
- Define the objective
- Prepare the force field diagram
- Identify the + and – forces
- Rate forces for ease of change and impact
- Analyse and evaluate
