Using Six-Week Improvement Cycles
Long improvement timelines often create the opposite of what leaders intend: lost momentum, stalled execution, and disengaged teams.
In this on-demand KaiNexus webinar, Simon Murray introduces a practical, repeatable approach to improvement execution built around focused six-week cycles. Drawing on Lean thinking, Agile principles, and real-world experience across industries and continents, Simon shows how shorter, fixed cycles can dramatically increase follow-through while reducing overwhelm and project fatigue.
Rather than relying on heavy planning, complex project tracking, or year-long initiatives, this session demonstrates how leaders can create clarity, urgency, and ownership by helping teams focus on the right work — for a short, defined period — and then deliberately pause, reflect, and reset.
If your organization struggles to turn good ideas into completed improvements, this webinar offers a simple, human-centered execution model you can apply immediately.
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Executive Summary
Many improvement efforts fail not because the ideas are weak, but because the execution model is flawed. Long timelines encourage overplanning, invite distractions, and make it easier for priorities to shift before results are delivered.
This webinar explores how six-week improvement cycles create a sustainable rhythm for execution by limiting work in progress, clarifying priorities, and empowering teams to lead change themselves. You’ll see how shorter cycles help organizations avoid burnout, maintain focus, and make visible progress — even in environments where improvement work must coexist with demanding day-to-day operations.
What You’ll Learn
This session focuses on how to execute improvement work more effectively, including:
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How to structure improvement work into fixed, six-week cycles without relying on complex project plans
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A simple method for selecting improvement projects that balances organizational priorities and team ownership
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How to scope work so meaningful value is delivered within a short time horizon
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Ways to create early wins that build confidence and momentum
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How to track progress visually without heavy reporting or micromanagement
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How to incorporate deliberate cooldown periods for reflection, learning, and planning
Key Insights
This webinar challenges common assumptions about how improvement work should be planned and managed. You’ll gain insight into:
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Why long timelines unintentionally reduce urgency, ownership, and accountability
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How limiting time and scope forces better decisions about what not to work on
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The hidden cost of overplanning — and why flexibility often improves outcomes
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Why team-led execution outperforms manager-driven project control
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How visible progress fuels engagement more effectively than status updates
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What it takes to build an execution rhythm that teams can sustain over time
Who This Webinar Is For
This webinar is ideal for:
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Continuous improvement, Lean, and operational excellence leaders
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Managers responsible for executing improvement alongside daily operations
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Organizations struggling with stalled projects or initiative overload
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Leaders looking for a simpler alternative to traditional project management
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Teams seeking a practical way to increase follow-through without burnout
Whether you’re running formal CI programs or simply trying to get more improvement work finished, this session provides a clear, adaptable framework.
From bricks to bread, from family business to global multinational. Simon has spent the last 20 years creating, leading, and coaching High Performance manufacturing teams. 
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