If your strategy deployment feels like a box-ticking exercise, it’s a sign that something fundamental has been lost along the way.

In this episode of Uncommon Sense, PMI Director Consultant Sean Buckland explores how Lean strategy deployment has quietly drifted away from its roots. Instead of connecting strategy to value streams, teams and learning, many organisations have replaced process with targets, and called it progress.

Listen now and discover what true Lean strategy deployment looks like, and how to spot when your strategy is drifting into a wish list.

More resources:

• Lean Thinking Is Not About Efficiency
• Reinvigorate Your Strategy
• Implementing Lean in Different Management Cultures

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Which everyday leadership behaviours are building trust… and which might be eroding it?

Join Partner Consultant, Des Kelly, in conversation with Susannah Clarke as they explore what it really takes to earn trust as a leader. Using the simple but powerful “Trust Equation,” Des shares how credibility, reliability and emotional safety combine, and how unchecked self-interest quietly undermines them all.


More resources:

• Essential Reading for Your Lean Six Sigma and Improvement Journey
• Lead Change: A Guide to Shaping Organisational Culture
• The Role of Leaders in AI Adoption

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD.
The Goals to Results Conference is back!
17th March 2026. Get your ticket here.

More from PMI:

• Dive into our Knowledge Hub for more tools, videos, and infographics
• Join us for a PMI LIVE Webinar
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Improvement practitioners know the fear: you’ve done the work, you’ve found the solution… but your improvement project just doesn’t progress. The reality is that sometimes budget shifts, priorities change, stakeholders block. But stalled improvement projects aren’t wasted.

In this episode, Damion Albinson joins Susannah Clarke to unpack what you still gain when implementation doesn’t happen. From uncovering hidden quick wins, to spotting strategic misalignment early, to resetting how teams think about feasibility, Damion shows why these moments are some of the richest learning opportunities in the improvement cycle.

More resources:

• How to Identify your First Green Belt Project
• Selecting a Problem
• Celebrating Success, Learning from Failure

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN AN AI-DRIVEN WORLD.
The Goals to Results Conference is back!
17th March 2026. Get your ticket here.

More from PMI:

• Dive into our Knowledge Hub for more tools, videos, and infographics
• Join us for a PMI LIVE Webinar
• Follow us on LinkedIn

Take your improvement career to the next level with PMI's Lean Six Sigma Certifications - now available in two new and accessible formats, built around you.

• Explore On Demand >>
• Explore Distance Learning >>