The Visual Blitz: Key To Your Visual Transformation
July 9, 2015
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How would you reply if asked whether you held visual workplace blitzes? Would you say: “Sure—someone is always thinking up a new visual device or two when we do our monthly kaizen blitz, sometimes more.”? But this Q&A is at cross purposes. In a visual workplace blitz (“visual blitz” for short), the result is lots of visual devices as well as visual mini-systems. Tune into Visual Workplace Radio this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, defines a visual blitz and maps out its steps, guiding principles, and delights. She will also compare and contrast it with its well-known cousin, the kaizen blitz. How are they the same? What are the telling differences? Join us and learn about the three different blitz levels, how to set them up, how to make sure they are successful, and how to use visual blitz events as a training ground for supervisors as they take on a greater role in the improvement progress of the enterprise. Tune in/learn more. Let the workplace speak!
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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.
