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THIS FRIDAY!
Friday, May 8
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
The Five Reasons for Workplace Visuality
1. Measurable, Bottom-Line Results
2. Sustainable Lean Gains
3. Dazzling Levels of Inventiveness
4. Universal Language Framework for Leadership
5. Empowerment & Transformation
with Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
$75 per person or group
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W
ork that Makes Sense
Suite
1: Basics
Three dynamic learning modules from our
WTMS eLearning Training and Implementation System
Learn how to get started with Visuality in
YOUR WORKPLACE:
Module 1: Basics of Visuality
Module 2: Visual Building Blocks
Module 3: Implementation Tool Box
Priced separately at $500 each, the
Suite 1 Regular price is a discounted $1400 USD
Through May 31, we're discounting Suite 1 even further, down to $1,100 USD
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The visual workplace is about making the truth hold still long enough for us to see it, assess it, make a sound decision, and then take timely appropriate action. Nothing does this better than visual displays and production controls boards. They are designed to provide snapshots of the truth across the spectrum of workplace concerns.
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| A person's subconscious constantly scans the environment for certain things. These include their own name as well as messages about food, sex, and danger. |
| And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To... |
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Easy to fix--Can you see how?
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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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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
[email protected]
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Visual Radio:
Visual and Lean: Two Wings of a Bird
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
This Week's Episode
Visual and Lean: Two Wings of a Bird
Question: Which is more important-visual or lean? Answer: Bad question. Visual and lean share a single outcome: operational excellence by identifying and eliminating waste, relentlessly. Listen this week as Gwendolyn Galsworth shares why and how visual and lean represent a single comprehensive improvement strategy, with only a difference in focus and language. Visual's name for the enemy is motion. It targets how companies share information and then seeks ways to strengthen and build adherence. On the flipside, lean's enemy is called waste or non-value adding activity. Its job is to dis-entangle the path that value follows on its way to the customer--and then put pull in place. Why make one powerful improvement paradigm more important than the other? Like the wings of a bird, visual and lean are both separate and equal in impact. If you ask a bird which of its wings is more important, it will simply fly off and let that be your answer.
Tune in/learn more.
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End Motion Through The Six Core Questions
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
In last week's issue of The Visual thinker, we took a closer look at the many forms of motion/moving without working. This week, I present The Six Core Questions as a second way to turn your questions into visual answers. A visual workplace makes answers readily and visually available to anyone who needs them at any time, as close-to-the-point-of-use as possible. Answers to what? Answers to the six core questions, one of the building blocks of visual thinking.
Look at the slate below to see what they are.
When the answers to some (or all) of these core questions are missing, the workplace is starved for information--and quality, lead time, safety, and costs are the first casualties.
Read More
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The Visual Where starts from the floor up, with borders for everything that casts a shadow. Notice this parts address is not very specific. If mix-ups happen, make this address more precise. (Fleet Engineers, Flint, MI)
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From the Editor:
CONTEST Reminder
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Last week, I posed a problem in need of one (or several) visual solutions:
This sign doesn't work! Here are the reasons I see:
Problem 1: The above device is passive--it tells what behavior is wanted but doesn't compel that behavior.
Problem 2: The device tries to control too many behaviors at one time.
Since our readers are all visual thinkers, we've asked you to send us your best visual ideas for compelling the desired behaviors.
The VTI team will choose the winner(s) on May 15 and winning devices will be listed in the May 20 newsletter. Dr. Galsworth may also share your solutions on her live radio show!
The creators of the best visual solutions will receive the Podcast bundle, 5S on Steroids, which includes 2 podcasts about The Four Power Levels (a $25 value). Create a solution for just one of the sentences or all six.
Send your contest submissions to
[email protected]
by
noon on Friday, May 15.
Help my kitchen speak!
Cindy Lyndin
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