Encore: Leave The Grouches Alone
January 5, 2017
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
What are realistic expectations about how people should and do respond to your splendid new improvement initiative? Should you get your hopes up? Should you remain detached and neutral? Or should you gird your loins for battle? In our show this week, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, discusses what she has discovered over three decades of implementations: that people will respond to change in one of three ways. They embrace it. They resist it. Or they do not have an opinion about it one way or the other; they are neutral. We call this threesome: The Rowers, Watchers, and Grumblers. And they offer us a perspective on the I of the I-driven approach to workplace visuality. Tune in this week and hear Gwendolyn share the telling difference between inertia and resistance and the most effective way of handling the grouches. Learn what not to do and what happens when individuals are allowed, even encouraged, to be themselves, with no fear of penalty.
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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.
