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Our podcast bundles are only $5.99 each. Each contains an average of 8 podcasts, bundled by topic. Commercial-free knowledge and know-how insights about your visual workplace, from expert Gwendolyn Galsworth.
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Visual Controls install information more deeply into the landscape of work so that people can and must do the right thing.
Devices on the control level and beyond don't bother to tell us what that right thing is. Nor do they attempt to clarify, motivate or influence. They simply make us do the right thing, with increasing surety--or prevent us from doing the wrong thing. Either way, they imbed adherence into the process of work itself and therein lies their extreme usefulness.
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Visual Workplace-Visual Thinking
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio:
Visual Management versus Visual Performance
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
Visual Management versus Visual Performance
Did you know visual management (VM) is a part--only a subset--of the visual workplace? And that there are seven other main categories of visual workplace function besides visual management? Though VM is important (especially to managers and executives), it represents only a small segment of the visual workplace continuum. Join us this week for part two of Gwendolyn Galsworth's series on visual management. As she states, VM has one over-arching goal: to clarify the corporate intent and connect and align it with: a) corporate-level results, b) site-level results, c) area-level results; and d) value-add level results. How is this done? Visually, through an array of highly-visible but flat 2D formats: charts, schemata, graphs, templates, LCD monitors, KPI dashboards, and so on. But visual management is not visual performance. Don't stuff all visual workplace functions under the single VM label. Expand your thinking/expand your language. Tune in/learn more.
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Empower the Value-Add Level Through Workplace Visuality (Part 2 of 4)
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
Many of us think we know the meaning of empowerment--respect individuals, let operators own their work, promote creativity, seek inputs from the value-add level. We celebrate any company that implements these concepts. No doubt about it: Empowerment is an abiding principle of operational excellence. You can't get to world-class without it.
Yet I would invite you to take a closer look at the term. Notice that smack-dab-in-the-middle of it is the word
power. In my book (and across three decades of implementing visuality),
empowerment means a fair bit more than the concepts named above. To have power not only means to have control but to have constant access to the source of that power.
The power at the center of empowerment is the power within--within people, within each person, each individual. That power is not the same as the WILL, but the WILL gets to decide how that power gets used. This is not a complex dynamic but it is a vital one.
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