Heroes: Habits of Mind/Habits of Heart Part 8
July 21, 2016
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Where do you land on this question.Do heroes just happen in the case of rare individuals or can we take steps to groom the hero’s mindset in all of us? Which one holds the truth for you? And what is the impact of that? This week on visual workplace radio, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, shares her response on this in the eighth and final show in her Hero Within series. Along the way, she draws sharp parallels between heroes in the workplace—and the habits of management, habits of mind, and habits of heart. Here’s another set of questions? Why do the sharks at your city’s aquarium not eat every other fish in that pool? And why don’t elephants break free and run away when they are tied in place by a rope so tiny that even grandma could tear off? The answers to all these questions have a great deal to do with the understanding companies need to enable every employee to become a hero at work—and how visuality can help. Tune in tolearn more. Let the workplace speak.
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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.
