Visual Leader of Improvement: The Seven Executive Elements
September 25, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Is this the choice? Charismatic executive leader—born to the role and with an insatiable appetite for improvement versus some competent decision-maker who has to (and wants to) learn how to do that? It’s the wrong question. The truth is the profile of executive as improvement leader is new or new-fangled to almost everyone, including executives.Equally untried is the notion that the principles and practices of visuality will not only help but are pivotal and indispensable. Why? That is exactly what your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, begins to un-nest and explain in this week’s show. In the process, she walks you through the seven elements of that define the executive leadership profile, paired and contrasted with the set of seven for supervisors/managers: 1) Decide vs Stabilize; 2) Align vs Measure; 3) Inspire vs Target; 4) Drive vs Deploy; 5) Verify vs Coach; and 6) Grow vs Model—which all roll up to the crowning pair: 7) Lead vs Improve. Tune in / learn more.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
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Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
