SECOND CHANCE!
The July 10 Live Webinar
has been rescheduled for
THIS FRIDAY, July 17
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific Time
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
Companies complain that their 5S initiative is dying on the vine.
When management fails to link the 5Ss with visuality, 5S will almost certainly get implemented in isolation of the more advanced forms of visual information-sharing.
Visual order jumps over these pitfalls and urges us to implement the visual where for everything that casts a shadow.
Install workplace visuality. Invent visual solutions. Implement visual functionality.
5S+1 raises the amps and fires the imagination.
Join us for this discussion about
why visual order is like 5S on steroids!
$75 per Group
Register now!
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Friday, August 14
12:00 - 1:30pm
Pacific
Time
$75 per Group
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Work That Makes Sense Module 3:
Your Implementation Tool Box
Only $100 for a full year of access!
Learn about the five tools specifically designed to help you and your company succeed visually:
1. Your Vision Place,
2. Your Action Hit List,
3. Your Supply Cart,
4. Your Visual Workplace Blitz; and
5. Your local-area Laminated Map.
Each tool is described in detail--with plenty of hands-on exercises so you can put these tools into practice right away and keep a tight focus as your work area improves visually.
Normally $500 for a year, your Visual Thinker Newsletter Deal is
$100 through July 31
Make the deal even better! Get the July special, then send us an email telling us how you are using the tools, and
we'll give you a
25% discount off the full WTMS eLearning System!
[email protected]
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As the visual thinkers who report to you begin to create visual solutions, pay close attention. It is now that the conversion is in its most delicate state because a single disparaging remark can undo the work of weeks or months. Every contribution, however humble, has a huge value at this point. Managers and supervisors, when you see that beginning, however small, make much of it. Give congratulations and take photos. Once ignited, people have such willingness to contribute. The success of your improvement initiative depends on that.
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Check out Dr. Galsworth's
Sears Case Study video,
posted on our website.
It's FREE and SHORT
and full of good info and fun ideas!
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Visual Radio:
Your Visual Blitz: Seven Success Elements
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
Your Visual Blitz: Seven Success Elements
In this, the third show on the Visual Workplace Blitz, Gwendolyn Galsworth walks you through the seven elements that can make every blitz a big step forward on an area's improvement journey. Listen as she describes: ways to keep your blitz focused and well supported; how to inspire people's improvement vision before, during, and after a blitz; what it means to follow the process as the blitz unfolds--and how photos can be the emotional glue that keep the engagement spirited and connected. But don't run off just because the hands-on part of your rapid visual improvement event is concluded. Conduct a careful debrief and follow up and you'll reap even more remarkable rewards. Done effectively, the visual blitz process can be a powerful training ground for building the habit of visual thinking amongst your value-add associates--and cultivating the improvement leadership of your supervisors and managers.
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The 5S Audit: Oh No, Not Again!
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
In this series about adjusting or just tweaking your 5S so that it works--or works a little better--I promised to share things that have helped me help my client companies get more mileage and better results from their 5S initiatives. I promised to share what I call: 5S on Steroids.
This week, we take on the 5S-Audit. That will continue for a few more issues after we get back from our summer holiday in August.
In the field of operational excellence today, there is a great deal of discussion about this: "It's about people, not tools." Tools in this case refer to improvement methods, such as: the fishbone diagram, pareto charts, A3, check sheets, flow charts, balanced scorecard, and the like. After decades of promoting tool-based change, the gurus now say, "It's all about people" as though people should be able to achieve operational excellence-and hold onto it-through the use of their imagination, ingenuity, and diligence. I cannot wholeheartedly agree.
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