Out of the Gate: Tasks for the Sure Win
December 1, 2016
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Did you prepare to get started? Did you get ready for success? Did you launch? Yes! Congratulations! Next question: Can you relax? Next answer: Sorry, no! Yes, you accomplished 12 of the 25 tasks that need to be in place to support improvement success. But more is needed. You have simply graduated to the next level of vigilance. You still have stay on your toes—but in a new way. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual workplace expert, maps out the list-that-needs-doing after your launch. Better said, this is not so much a list as a set of core principles that can really mess things up if you are not aware of them—or not yet experienced enough to understand their importance. Let’s change that. Today Gwendolyn will treat five of thirteen “tasks” that remain: 1) Pay attention to beginnings; 2) Handle big ideas wisely; 3) Balance I-driven with consensus; 4) Promote iterations/cultivate cycles; 5) Don’t standardize too soon. Tune in/Learn more. Let the workplace speak.
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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.
