5S: What Lies Beneath?
November 5, 2015
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
What if your 5S was a creative process that engages, enlivens, educates, and elevates? What if your 5S could let the workplace speak? Let’s face it: 5S has a problem, a BIG problem. And it lies at the very foundation of the 5S approach. But this problem cannot be addressed through an audit or any other piece of paper. It’s a bigger problem than that. Join us this week as visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, shares her take on why traditional 5S is such a struggle for far too many companies. Why they have to push their 5S agenda far too often and far too hard. The problem, as Galsworth explains, is what lies beneath the 5S logo. The problem is with 5S’s internal mechanism—its central thesis or theme. Its compelling premise. What is that? What is 5S’s beating heart? Does it even have one? If your answer is not substantive and meaningful, then 5S is merely an activity your boss requires you to undertake—an activity you have to push associates to apply. 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.
