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Workplace Visuality: Perfect Partner to Lean
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Alexandria, Minnesota
January 18-22, 2016
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking
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Apple Valley, MN
April 12-13, 2016
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Our podcast bundles are now only $5.99 each. Each contains 3-12 podcasts, bundled by topic. Commercial-free knowledge and know-how insights about your visual workplace, from expert Gwendolyn Galsworth.
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Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees.
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What is Visual Thinking? The ability of a person to recognize motion and the information deficits that trigger it--and then to eliminate both through solutions that are visual.
from
Becoming a Leader of Improvement
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio: It's the Start That Stops Us: Five Factors (Part 2) ENCORE
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Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
It's The Start That Stops Us: Five Factors (Part 2) ENCORE
Why is getting improvement going so tricky? Why do companies so often bail in the early stages--long before they have had time to fail? Why is it that the start stops us? Building on last week's show when we learned the difference between the HOW of deployment and the WHAT, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, maps out five factors that can doom our best efforts to launch successful improvement initiatives. The first factor, discussed last week, is the mistaken pursuit of perfection. Secondly, we are often far too casual about choosing the methodology itself--or it lacks a separate and robust implementation protocol. The third factor that can defeat us is when managers demand results too quickly and, in doing so, rob the organization. Fourth, our trainers begin to train groups for the wrong reasons. Fifth, implementers decide to re-shape the methodology long before they have learned it. It's the start that stops us. Another great ENCORE show!
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The Start of the Journey is the Destination (Part 1 of a 3-part Series)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
More often than not, an effective implementation of operator-led visuality produces a 15%-30% increase in productivity on the cell or departmental level, beginning with the implementation of the
visual where. (Or, as our trainers like to title it:
5S on Steroids). But that effectiveness and those impressive results require that management not take shortcuts.
One of the most fundamental errors managers make when "turning over" the visual reins to value-add associates is to commandeer for themselves the simple task of implementing the visual where (borders, addresses, ID labels). Such managers mean no harm; they reason that because the task is so simple and obvious, they can do it themselves, get it over with, and save operators for more interesting improvement tasks. The result? The first step of what should be a rich and productive journey and terrific bottom-line benefits quickly goes off the rails.
Look again, managers.
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When you crack the code on time, you liberate it for improvement.
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