Live Webinar
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
Thursday, April 9
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
A Visual Workplace Company Study
We present a case study, full of ideas and examples of visuality in action.
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| Cats apparently see psychedelic stripes on flowers and patterns on the wings of birds that are completely invisible to the human eye. Cats, dogs, and some other animals are able to see types of light, like UV light, that we don't see at all. For example, these may be certain patterns on flowers that show where the nectar is, or traces of urine of an animal. This ability also enables animals like cats and dogs to detect animals with white fur on snow, whereas we might only see the white of the snow.
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You have to see what is not there in order to spot the opportunity that unused air provides as you seek to maximize the use of space through smart placement.
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Visual Radio:
The Visual War Room
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
The Visual War Room: A Place and a Time to Drive
What does driving look like when you are a visual leader? It looks like a Visual War Room-a space that is intensely focused on paying special daily attention to a narrow group of time-sensitive objectives on which the daily life of your operations depend. These are not a loosely-held array of KPIs--quality, safety, cost, and delivery--that you and your operations team monitor and check but a set of tightly-defined measures, specifically chosen by the ranking site executive. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth maps out the third tool of visual leadership for the executive: the War Room-how to structure it, when to schedule it, how to advance it and where to begin.
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| This room is dedicated to Machine reliability. While important, this does not meet the definition of a Visual War Room. |
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Visual Inventiveness versus Cookie-Cutter Devices in Shared Work Environments
(PART 1 OF 2)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
How to handle a shared work space when it is the target of improvement-a shared machine, a shared bench, a shared desk, shared tools? We know we need to respect the individual, and yet these particular individuals are also expected to find a way to amicably share their corner of the world--even as they seek to control it. A territorial imperative can often take over. Even though the company owns the actual bench, machine, tool set, it still feels like mine; I may share it with other shifts but I use it with such regularity and over so many years, it still feels like mine.
In my early years as an implementer, I was often challenged by this as well. How can I get people to move forward with the physical change that visuality requires when the emotional/ownership issue is so loud, so dominant?
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| Let's multiply the challenge: 980 sewing machines--that that many sewing techs times three shifts. |
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We'll solve this one next week.
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This Month's
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On Sale through
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Created and narrated by Dr. Galsworth,
The Work That Makes Sense (WTMS) Training & Implementation System is a powerful series of 11 individual on-demand webinars, based on Galsworth's Shingo-Prize winning book of the same title. Whether you seek a spirited and engaged workforce, measurable bottom-line results-or both--the NEW WTMS System is the affordable, convenient way to transform your value-add employees into a workforce of visual thinkers and produce a 15% to 30% increase in productivity.
With over 900 powerful, full-color visual solutions as a teaching base, this series of linked webinars stimulates real-time learning and hands-on implementation, supported by exercises, checklists, discussion points, and lots of visual thinking.
Each 1.0 to 1.25 hour webinar is a stand-alone learning module that can be viewed on either a large or small screen, with precise navigation that allows you to stop and start whenever you like.
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