Five Things You Should Know About Visuality
November 20, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Do you mistakenly believe the visual workplace is merely a series of point solutions—helpful, even clever—but not much more? If so, your expectations of visuality are too small for the quantity of information deficits in your company. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, puts her series on Visual Leadership on pause in order to share five telling perspectives on workplace visuality. This begins with the fact that visuality is a dynamic language, an imbedded vocabulary that makes your operational system reliable and robust. Tune in and learn why Gwendolyn says: 1) Lean does not include visual; 2) Visuality and lean are equal partners in operational excellence; 3) Visuality puts 5S on steroids; 4) visual technologies create a spirited, engaged work culture, even on the executive level; and 5) Visual thinking provides a new core competency that not only reduces waste but also aligns and unifies. Upgrade your expectations—and your results. 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.
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.
