4. When you’re planning an effort that involves a participatory process. What level of participation can you expect to begin with? Where do you have to start in order to have a reasonable possibility of success? Applying the model will help to answer these and similar questions.
5. When you’re engaged in a community or neighborhood planning effort. Many such efforts start with the assumption that everyone is at the same readiness level, but provide very little encouragement to move. A close look at where the community or neighborhood is actually starting from might both speed up the process and broaden involvement and subsequent satisfaction with the results.