Thursday, March 12
Live Webinar
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
The Visual Machine: Let Your Equipment Speak
Visual devices and mini-systems make machinery self-explaining so we can be self-regulating. The Visual Machine� doesn't just help us do the
right thing repeatedly, reliably and fast, it helps us prevent problems.
$75 per person or group
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The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other color.
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When you begin to implement visuality in your own work area, you must start by responding to your own need to know. As you build a firm foundation of visual answers to this question, you get more and more control of your corner of the world. Then you turn to others and help them get the answers they need. You share the vital information they need through visual devices you create on their behalf--you share.
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When I start something new, I usually want to share. It may be a new hobby, a new recipe, a wonderful new movie, or a great book--I want to tell people about it because it affected me in some meaningful way. Don't we all do that?
Showing off your new visual device is a natural part of its creation. When you find something that works for you, it's exciting, and even fun, and you want to drag people over and say, "Look!"
Showing other people your visual device gets them imagining what they might be able to do. They create something that links with yours, and your device evolves into something even more wonderful than you thought it was.
Sharing your excitement for your visual creation is great for you, for your team, and for your company. Go ahead, show off!
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Visual Radio:
The Heart of the Leader
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
The Heart of the Leader & Visuality [ENCORE] CEOs and plant managers are right to question their status as ranking site executives. Though they may want to lead their companies to victory, they often spend most of their time merely managing and maintaining. They are right to ask: What do effective leaders do? This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth describes the heart of the bona fide leader-in her language: the barracuda leader. |
Visuality Aligns the Culture by Gwendolyn Galsworth
(NOTE: Dr. Galsworth is conducting seminars this week. Her series on The Ten Doorways will resume with Doorway 10, next week in the March 4 issue.)
Thinking about company conversions merely in terms of increased production and profits is not just limited; it is useless. Company conversion requires a change that changes everything. The visual workplace must also be about culture, because when we implement workplace visuality, we liberate information in the process. We free vital information that was formerly imprisoned in the binders, reports, books, computer files, and data systems of the company-and in the hearts and minds of that company's information specialists, managers, supervisors, engineers and technicians, and line employees as well.
Read More  | | Life with visual information sharing |
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Submitted by Ted Theyerl from University of Wisconsin, Stout
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Have you seen a Visual Fail that made you laugh?
Send the image to [email protected], and we'll put it here and credit you with the funny find!
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