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.
$75 per person or group
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Spiders usually have eight eyes (some have six or fewer), but few have good eyesight. They rely instead on touch, vibration and taste stimuli to navigate and find their prey. Most are able to detect little more than light-dark intensity changes which stimulate nocturnal web building, hunting or wandering activities and rapid movement to allow quick reactions against daytime predators.
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When you must have a door for security reasons or to protect contents against contamination, consider using see-thru material such as screening or acrylic, instead of opaque material. You still get the protection but you also get information sharing: You can see what is behind the barrier.
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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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From the Editor:
Graffiti Worth Noticing
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Creative people are all around us, appealing to our visual sense of humor.
A reader sent me this last week, and it made me laugh:
 Though its appropriateness is a politically hot topic, graffiti has been around as far back as Ancient Egypt. Sometimes, it's a type of signature, as with gang tagging and this ultra-American image:
Graffiti is often intended to make us laugh or think. The notorious Banksy in Britain likes to provide a new perspective on things that are so common we no longer see them until he points them out:
(I will be sharing more of Banksy's work in upcoming weeks in the Visual Poem/Puzzle section.)
As you navigate through your world and your day, keep your eyes open for little visual gifts left by elves in the night. Someone put them there for you to find.
And if you find one you'd like to share, send me a picture for this newsletter. Perhaps I will receive enough fun artwork to start a new column, called "Graffiti Worth Noticing"....
Cindy Lyndin
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Visual Radio:
19 Minutes: Cadence as Outcome
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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
Why is a Visual War Room important? What's its purpose? Why not rely on a rich array of data-sharing LCD monitors? Why meet daily-and ONLY for 19 minutes?! What do we meet about anyway? So many questions/so little time. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth answers them all and builds your War Room understanding. As she maps out the three War Room stages, she explains that most organizations have to spend at least one year in Stage 1 before they even consider moving on to stage 2. Why? Because they are not ready and they know it. They know about their readiness because one of a War Room's four purposes is to reveal (and then build) the company's current level of leadership competency. Stage 1 companies realize what it will take to make the jump and respond to the demands of the next stage. They value those demands-and do they elect to prepare for them. This is a powerful turning point in visual leadership and for the enterprise.
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This company was so committed to the War Room function that it literally built a room for that purpose in the middle of its production floor.
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Draft of a Metrics Template for a War Room in a medical device company--a strong beginning, representing at strong understanding of the DRIVE function.
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Puzzler Solution: Prototype Visuality
(PART 2 OF 2)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
I'll bet you can hardly wait to learn about the solution to last week's puzzler! The question was: How to help people move forward with their ideas on converting a shared space to visuality--without having to deal with competing notions of what constitutes good, bad, dazzling, practical, left-handed/right-handed, needed, and so on? In short, even though employees will be engaged in making a shared space visual, how can you avoid worrying about how to balance visual inventiveness with the territorial imperative called "mine?" The solution that follows means you won't have to settle for good enough-cookie-cutter visuality--instead of visual solutions that are dazzling and oh so practical. The answer to last week's puzzler is what I call: the Prototype Solution.
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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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