Godzilla Meets Visuality
October 6, 2016
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Question: How big are chronic information deficits in the workplace? Answer: HUGE!!! Imagine Godzilla and you are approaching the right size. Find the footprint of this beast and you will have a gauge for the massive volume of motion that missing answers trigger at work—whether you are in a hospital, office, factory or open-pit mine. This week on the Visual Workplace, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, will map out four handy ways you can calculate the size of the beast, even as you plan its extinction. Visuality is a system of thinking first—then a system of doing. Put that thinking into action by: 1- Staying alert-looking-listening: 2- Using a memo pad and pen: 3- Naming the location of your main work: 4- Having a pedometer or stopwatch handy. Gwendolyn explains precisely how to use these simple elements to stalk the enemy, wrestle it to the ground, and cremate its broken body! Hurray. Lean can’t help—nor Six Sigma nor CI. Visuality to the rescue. 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.
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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.
