NEXT WEEK
Thursday, April 9
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
Live Webinar
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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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This Month's
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Only $5 through April 30!
Podcast Bundle #1: Introduction to the Visual Workplace (7 Podcasts)
Our Podcast bundles are concise, specially-edited versions of Gwendolyn Galsworth's weekly podcasts, grouped in bundles, by topic. This month's bundle includes these podcast titles:
1.1.
Let the Workplace Speak!
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The First Visual Building Block: I-Driven Devices
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Visual Thinkers Wanted (The 7 Remaining Building Blocks)
1.4.
Ten Doorways
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Cultural Transformation: How Visuality Does It
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We Are Visual Beings
1.7.
Five Things You Should Know About Visuality
These podcasts provide an opportunity for a brilliant introduction to visual thinking for only $5!
Regular Price: $25 USD
On sale through April 30: $5 USD
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The human eye actually perceives images upside down. It's the brain that flips the image. As a result, it is believed that for the first few days, babies see everything upside-down. This is because they have not become used to vision.
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Vision without an implementation road map is only a hope. Select an improvement method with a proven track record for bottom-line results related workplace visuality. Then follow it carefully for at least three cycles before you change or remove anything. In that way, you will learn to understand and value the method as given, adapting it knowingly only after you have clarified your local needs.
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| And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To... |
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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Visual Radio:
Your Operations Roadmap
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
Your Operations Roadmap: Leadership Step Down
Q: Given the array of powerful visual tools that help executives learn to lead more effectively, what tool can we use to share a sense of improvement urgency and direction on the value-add level? A: The Operations Roadmap. In this week's show, Gwendolyn Galsworth drops into place this final visual leadership tool. Deployed by supervisors and managers, the roadmap is a stepdown version of the X-Type Matrix, naming the company improvement goals and objectives for the year--but connected to a specific set of departmental projects and tasks. While each work area's roadmap is locally different, it is globally framed within the company's overall direction. The roadmap provides each department with its own window on the corporate intent and how to contribute to it. In this final show in the series, Galsworth concludes with the roadmap and brings together all six visual leadership tools so their synergy becomes plain and compelling.
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The Visual Workplace: Defined
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
The entire world of work is striving to making work safer, simpler, more logical, reliable, linked, and less costly. Central to this is the visual workplace. The visual workplace is not a brigade of buckets and brooms or posters and signs. It is a compelling operational imperative, central to your war on waste, and crucial to meeting daily performance goals, vastly reduced lead times-and dramatically improved quality. But most people do not understand the tremendous power of workplace visuality. Instead they treat it as an add-on to some other improvement effort, whether lean or six sigma. "We know what visual is.... Let's put up some signs, stick on some labels, and put down some lines-color-coded!" This is not just a mistake in thinking; it is the loss of a huge improvement opportunity.
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| Your local gas pump is covered with visual information sharing. |
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From the Editor:
Visual April Fools Day
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Though I hesitate to point this out, today is known to merry pranksters everywhere as "April Fools Day".
In the spirit of the day, here are a couple of visual pranks I thought included some creative wit and provided a chuckle.
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An
April fool
in Denmark, regarding
Copenhagen's new subway
. It looks as if one of its cars had an accident, and had broken through and surfaced on the square in front of the town hall. In reality, it was a retired subway car from the subway of Stockholm cut obliquely, with the front end placed onto the tiling and loose tiles scattered around it.
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And if you've wondered why that darned Ikea furniture is so hard to put together, maybe you got one of these:
Have a happy April Fool's Day, and please make your pranks witty, but kind.
Cindy Lyndin
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