Encore: 5S Makeover: 5 Tips
February 16, 2017
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Is yours one of the many companies that has given up on 5S? You tried it once—in great earnestness: Sort, Set in Order, Simplify, Standardize, Sustain (or some other set of “S” words that were supposed to work). But just as you thought you had it rolling, you got push instead of pull. Struggle instead of success. Join us this week when your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, shares her secrets for a 5S Makeover—a 5S resurrection. Listen as she shares five simple 5S tips that can revive your 5S—and give you the leverage you need to get and sustain the 5S promise: improved performance and improved KPIs and cultural results. Who would argue with what 5S is supposed to accomplish—cleanliness and order? Who would argue with the how—the 5S audit? Gwendolyn—that’s who! She can and does dispute both. If you already put 5S in the trash, discover five simple ways to bring it back to a vibrant, long-lasting, and productive life. Tune in/Learn more. Let the workplace speak!
Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak
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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.