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Issue 17/Volume 3                www.VisualWorkplace.com                  April 27, 2016
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Thought for the Week
 The formula for implementing automatic recoil (the visual where) is is simple: a border, home address, and (if possible) an ID label for everything that casts a shadow. No exception. This lays down the pattern of work and installs automatic recoil--the ability of a workplace item to find its way back home, based solely on the visual location information built into it.

from Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Translating Info into Behavior: The Results 
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This Week's Episode
Translating Info into Behavior: The Results (ENCORE)

What does the world of work hold in common--no matter the setting? This week at The Visual Workplace,Gwendolyn Galsworth shares the answer. The single and fundamental transaction deployed a million times a day in every workplace is: the translation of vital information into behavior. In recognizing this, we understand workplace visuality's shining purpose--to imbed information into the living landscape of work in order to imbed behavior: human behavior, machine behavior, and company behavior. This week that true purpose is front and center--along with its impact. The results! Listen as Gwendolyn shares the remarkable bottom line and cultural outcomes created by effectively implementing the technologies of the visual workplace: 15% to 30% increase in productivity, an aligned and engaged workforce on every level of the organization, and a complete transformation of the company into an enterprise of visual thinkers.  
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Feature Article
Beautiful: A Workplace Fit for Humans 
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD

I have been traveling far too much over the past two months. But here's the thing: I learn so much when I am on the road, when I work directly with you, with companies wanting to get visual. I know it may sound odd, but sometimes the challenge is not always the work itself. Sometimes it is the unavailability of beautiful fresh food-beautiful and fresh being the same word. Food with a single ingredient. Not processed and packaged. Just nourishment.

Or air. I was working in an overhaul and repair factory a few weeks ago. Management had decided to turn off the air conditioning in a misbegotten cost savings decision. Not that I needed cooler air. But, like you, I needed oxygen.

That's what I want to talk with you about in this series--creating beautiful, nourishing work environments, even at an overhaul and repair facility. We have to expect beauty. And we have to want it.

Said another way, work and ugly are not required partners of each other. Whatever the work, humans almost always show up in person. The workplace matters, and pretending that we can tolerate anything is not a solution.   
 
 
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