Encore: Visual Leaders are Visual Thinkers First
March 9, 2017
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How does the logic of visual thinking relate to leadership? Do the same core visual principles apply to a leader who wants to make his job more effective, stable, and imbedded? Can it really be said that a leader becomes more effective when she uses visual devices to assist her in achieving her required day-to-day outcomes? In this third show of her new series—The Principles & Practices of Visual Leadership—Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, sets out a line of logic that helps us understand the leader as “just another I-driven visual thinker.” But she also identifies the conditions and qualities that make leader-led visuality distinctly different and apart from operator-led visuality. As she explains, while the building blocks of the visual thinking are the same for every employee, the unique pressures of leadership expose a different set of expectations and a unique definition of both work and the leader’s value field. Call in questions/comments: 866-472-5790.
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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.
