Visual Thinking Seminar and Site Assessment
Querétaro, Mexico
October 19-20 & 25-26
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A visual control is a mechanism that limits, restricts, and directs our behavior through structure--like a railroad crossing gate. That physical barrier replaces the less effective railroad crossing sign, even with flashing lights.
Because visual controls are structural, they directly impact the power of the individual will--choice--except if a person is determined to ignore them.
Visual controls are powerful deterrents--or enablers, whichever side you look at. When we reach the control level, our behavior becomes less and less optional because the device itself structures (controls) our response.
from
Work That Makes Sense
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh? Send the image to
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Visual Radio:
The Journey of the I: Boon to the Corporate Good
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
The Journey of the I: Boon to the Corporate Good
Would it surprise you to know that operator-led visuality is not a team-based methodology? Not at first. At first, the process focuses on strengthening the individual-both in skill and identity. Listen as Gwendolyn Galsworth describes the individual journey that each individual (the "I") engages when they learn why and how to gain control over one's corner of the world through visual solutions. As a result, the company gains a 15%-30% increase in productivity. The individual gains that part of themselves that was previously not welcomed at work--the part they left in the back seat of the car, with the window slightly cracked so it is still there when they clocked out at the end of the shift. Operator-led visuality invites that part in--to participate, to express, and to invent visual solutions, some never been seen on the planet before. This is a boon to the corporate good. Tune in. Learn more about the journey of the I. Let the workplace speak.
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The Invisible Enemy: Ruler of the Non-Visual Workplace
(1st in a Series)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
There is an enemy in your company--and it's invisible. You can't see it because it literally is not there. Yet its impact is massive on every level of the enterprise, from board room to marketing to operations to the field staff. And the only way we have even the smallest chance of destroying it is by focusing on what it causes...its footprint.
Can you name it?
Yes, the enemy is information deficits: information that is either incomplete, imprecise, misleading, late/too late, wrong or simply not there. This missing information is always vital to the task at hand but its main attribute is its unavailability, whether by neglect or by oversight. Another way to say this is missing answers.
Missing answers are rampant in the workplace, whether factory, hospital, office or government agency. Here I am not referring to information that we as customers might request from, for example, a government agency-the DMV, IRS, or Social Security; that is a different order of answer. The missing answers under discussion this week are the ones we need in order to do our own work.
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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
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