The Visual War Room: A Place and a Time to Drive
March 19, 2015
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
[Download MP3] [itunes] [Bookmark Episode]
Episode Description
What does driving look like when you are a visual leader? It looks like a Visual War Room—a space that is intensely focused on paying special daily attention to a narrow group of time-sensitive objectives on which the daily life of your operations depend. These are not a loosely-held array of KPIs—quality, safety, cost, and delivery—that you and your operations team monitor and check but a set of tightly-defined measures, specifically chosen by the ranking site executive. This week, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, maps out the third tool of visual leadership for the executive: the War Room—how to structure it, when to schedule it, how to advance it and where to begin. Along the way, she outlines and corrects the most common War Room mistakes and mis-conceptions. Listen as she describes the key role your continuous improvement leaders can play in making a War Room a success and why the best War Room teams meet daily but for only 19 minutes. Tune in/learn more.
Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak
Archives Available on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
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.