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Uncommon Sense - Tools to Improve your Work Forever
Flowcharting: The Three Steps to Clarity and Value
Jul 15, 2026 Season 1 Episode 98
Process Management International (PMI)

How confident are you that your team sees the process the same way you do?

You might view flowcharting as a drawing exercise, but in reality, it’s a thinking tool. A framework for helping teams explore messy processes to reveal what people assume, what they disagree on, and what they’ve never properly surfaced.

Drawing on his own improvement project experience, Senior Consultant, Mark Allison talks through three levels of flowcharting that help improvement practitioners move from high-level clarity into the deeper issues sitting in handoffs, rework, and unclear ownership.


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