COMING NEXT WEEK!
Visual Machine WORKSHOP IN THE UK
DATE--January 27:
Dr. Galsworth teaches
Letting the Machine Speak
at Grants & Sons Distilleries, in Strathclyde, Scotland
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Next Live Webinar with Dr. Galsworth:
Thursday, February 12
12:00 - 1:30pm Pacific
The Visual Where: Borders
$75 per person or group
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If you have blue eyes, you share a common ancestor with every other blue-eyed person in the world.
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A visual device is a mechanism or thing intentionally designed to influence, guide, direct, limit or even guarantee our behavior by making vital information available as close to the point-of-use as possible to anyone and everyone who needs it without speaking a word.
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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:
Standards Vs. Visual Standards
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
Standards versus Visual Standards (Doorway 2) Standards are the bedrock of all work, paving the way to repeatable, precise, and predictable outcomes. What manager/supervisor does not pursue standards, standard work, and standardization as the starting point of control and the end of human error? But where do Visual Standards fit in? And can they ensure exact, stable performance? |
What The Operator Saw
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
(Note: Dr. Galsworth is conducting seminars in the U.K. Her series on The Ten Doorways will resume with Doorway 8 in the February 11 issue.)
What do operators experience in a workplace driven by continuous improvement? To find out, we must look at the "Before" state-before continuous improvement, before empowerment, and before lean and its strategic partner visuality have become a corporate mandate.
In this pre-lean/pre-visual state, people hold a narrow view-associates, managers, and executives alike. They simply want to do their work and do it reasonably well. Everything and everyone is forced to exist within...
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This Month's Featured Product
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On Sale through
January 31st!The first module in Work That Makes Sense-eleven individual webinars aimed at teaching operators how to think visually and convert their own work areas to a visual work environment. In this first webinar of the Work That Makes Sense/Operator-Led Visuality Series, you learn the fundamental set of visual workplace concepts, terms, and definitions. You discover what a visual workplace is, why it is so important to operational performance, and the role the workforce plays in making work visual. Dozens of smart visual solutions are presented for study and discussion-solutions found in the community and in workplaces around the world. Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth (visual expert, award-winning author, and creator/narrator of this series) shows how visuality reduces waste and imbeds vital workplace information into the landscape of work through visual devices. Regular Price: $500 USD On sale through January 31st: $399 USD
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From the Editor:
Huge Pricing Drop in Work That Makes Sense
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Many of you reading this may have wished that your company could purchase Dr. Galsworth's renowned Work That Makes Sense system, in order to get a visual conversion process started in your workplace. Until now, that system may have been prohibitively expensive for your company. One of our 2015 goals has been to make our training materials more accessible--easier to buy, easier to use, easier to afford. Our brand new version of the Work That Makes Sense system is better, clearer, and MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE than at any other time in our company's history. It's now available online, on demand, both as individual modules on various topics ($500 each) and as a full system (priced at only $5500 for the 11 modules plus supporting documents and materials). This is a huge discount from our previous versions, and it's so user-friendly that your operators can quickly learn about visual devices and begin implementing them almost immediately. If you've been hoping for a time when Work That Makes Sense would become affordable enough for your company, that that time is now. You can sample the first one for even less by using the Featured Product discount code above. Check out the options!
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief
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