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NEW DATES--January 21/22:
Dr. Galsworth takes
The Principles & Practices of Visual Leadership
to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in Sudbury, Suffolk
Dr. Galsworth teaches
Letting the Machine Speak
at Grants & Sons Distilleries, in Strathclyde, Scotland
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NEXT LIVE WEBINAR
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DR. GWENDOLYN GALSWORTH
COMING UP
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 12:00PM PACIFIC TIME.
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The human eye can't perceive the color red. The brain actually has to combine the inherent greens and yellows to create the red we "see."
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From the Editor:
BIG NEWS!
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 I am pleased to introduce our
newly-redesigned, just-launched website:
Please visit the site and browse around. This new look marks a re-imagining of Visual Thinking Inc and the services we provide.
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The second part of that new beginning is an exciting shift toward accessibility for our most important learning materials:
Our
Work That Makes Sense
webinars can now be purchased ONLINE!
Available individually, or bundled by topic, you can build your learning system to suit your needs. These learning modules have been through their own redesign process, making them streamlined, efficient, easy-to-use, effective and dynamic teaching tools. We invite you to take a look!
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief
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Visual Radio: The Visual Machine 2:
Layer Cake of Visual Information
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
The Visual Machine-2: Layer Cake of Visual Information
Why bother to apply visual thinking to a machine if you've already decided what devices you will put on it? Just stick them in place and do the minimum. It'll help--a little. But why not go further? Why not get the machine to cough up its secrets? Tell you its worries and woes? Why not make a partner of the machine so it can help you in your work?
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Doorway 5: Visual Controls & PULL Systems by Gwendolyn Galsworth
The term visual controls is specialized and cannot and should not be used as a replacement name for any old visual device. Many people don't know this and so they call this or that visual device a visual control. A pity, because a visual control has something very special to contribute to operational excellence (and to visuality), but only if we notice its control function. As its name shows, a visual control is a device that-by design-limits, restricts, constrains, and restrains.
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A visual control at Seton Name Plate, setting the safe stack height for bales of recyclable cardboard.
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Figure B. The four squares in this simple kanban pattern tell us the material handlers at this site carry a busy load.
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This Month's Featured Product
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On Sale through December 31st!
At last! A book that teaches how to go beyond 5S and train, implement, coach, support, and sustain visual inventiveness on the operator-level. This is a must-read for all levels of the organization. Based on nearly 30 years in the field, author Gwendolyn Galsworth, foremost authority on workplace visuality, provides value-add associates with a methodology and hundreds of full-color actual visual solutions for converting their own work areas into visual workplaces. The result? Visuality becomes the imbedded language of operational excellence-and the workplace speaks. Across eleven chapters and over 500 full-color examples and charts, you will learn a clear and complete step-by-step protocol for transforming organizations into well-functioning visual workplaces-and operators into visual thinkers of the first order. If there is one book to buy to advance your excellence journey, Work That Makes Sense is it.
Regular Price: $55 USD
On sale through December 31st: $44 USD
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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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Stories are the natural way people process information. When teaching, presenting, or writing, recounting a personal event--yours or someone else's--can provide a necessary mental link between your material and its purpose. No matter how dry you think your information is, using stories will make it understandable, interesting, and memorable.
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