Gather the tools needed for a particular operation in a specific location or container--a drawer, shelf, cart, or cabinet. Boldly designate a home for each item. Put the items in place and--presto-chango!--you can tell at a glance if everything you need to start and complete the task is in place.
from Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
Visual Poem/Puzzle
Look for TWO fictional characters.
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Visual Radio: (Part 8/Hero Within) Heroes: Habits of Mind/Habits of Heart
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Where do you land on this question: Do heroes just happen in the case of rare individuals--or can we take steps to groom the hero's mindset in all of us? Which one holds the truth for you? And what is the impact of that? This week on visual workplace radio, Gwendolyn Galsworth shares her response on this in the eighth and final show in her Hero Within series. Along the way, she draws sharp parallels between heroes in the workplace--and the habits of management, habits of mind, and habits of heart. Here's another set of questions? Why do the sharks at your city's aquarium not eat every other fish in that pool? And why don't elephants break free and run away when they are tied in place by a rope so tiny that even grandma could tear off?
The answers to all these questions have a great deal to do with the understanding companies need to enable every employee to become a hero at work--and how visuality can help. Tune in/learn more. Let the workplace speak.
Visuality & The Two Primes (Part 8/The Invisible Enemy)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
The visual world and I.... The visual world and you. Such a perfect relationship. We see and we understand. And when we see and understand on the job, work happens without struggle. It flows. And like the pull systems it supports, a visual workplace creates pull between itself and us, the user. We pull information to us--when and as we need it--because it was we who determined that that information was vital to us; and we who turned that needed information into visual devices. We gave our work area the voice with which it now speaks to us. Pretty amazing, huh!
In this final article in our eight-part series on The Invisible Enemy, we tie up loose ends by examining a set of three strong anchor points. The first are what I call The Two Primes: 1) To tell merely by looking and 2) To tell the difference merely by looking. These are the two core principles that underpin of all visuality--no matter the work setting and even when we are where no work happens (at movies or a boxing match).
