The New Visual Executive Leader: Getting Started
October 2, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Where did our new ideas about leaders come from? What triggered the change so many leaders now seek? Should Japan really get all the credit? In today’s show, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, responds—and also provides an overview of the five visual constructs (tools) the new leader needs in order to understand and operationalize the corporate intent: 1) Operations Improvement Template; 2) X-Type Matrix; 3) Metrics That Drive; 4) War Room; and 5) Operations Roadmap. These five leadership tools capitalize on visuality’s power to structure in thinking and behavior—and create a new leadership paradigm that ties into the job profile presented last week. This week, Galsworth introduces the first of the five constructs: Operations Template, an advance visual organizer that provides the executive with a crystal understanding of the organization’s strengths and deficits—and what growth means for the company. This will take several shows to unfold. Tune in/call in: 866-472-5790
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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.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
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.
