A weekly newsletter about letting the workplace speak
Issue 4/Volume 1                          www.visualworkplace.com                              October 29, 2014   
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The Basics of Workplace Visuality
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From the Editor:
New Phases 
Happy Halloween!
To celebrate the holiday, we've posted some of our favorite Halloween-themed Visual illusions on our Facebook page where we post the fun stuff. Please LIKE our page while you're there!
Here's the spooky news: We are expanding our online presence beyond Facebook. Though Dr. Galsworth has had a LinkedIn page for some time,Visual Thinking now has a LinkedIn page of its own, where you will find useful, informative tips and tidbits about Lean, 5S, and Visuality. Also, we would love to have your feedback on our new Google+ page.  
 
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief

Visual Radio: 
Yes to the Few/Wait to the Many 
Listen to Gwendolyn this  Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) 
on www.VoiceAmerica.com 
 
This Week's Episode

Yes to the Few/Wait to the Many:  

Putting Your House to Work    

(part of Galsworth's Visual Leadership Series)  

 

 How do you decide where to apply resources in order to improve? And how do you know you made the right choice? So many improvement opportunities, so little time. As part of her current series on Visual Leadership/The Executive Function, Gwendolyn Galsworth, continues to un-nest the strategy of waste reduction and its macro-metric (including the story of how the West discovered it). She then explains how to harness the improvement power of your house by...   

Feature Article
 
What Do I Need to Know?
The Need to Share: The Perfect Promise of Unity
by Gwendolyn Galsworth 
 
In last week's issue of The Visual Thinker, I discussed the first of the two questions that drive a visual workplace: "What do I need to know-that I don't know right now in order to do my work?" In workplace visuality, the individual answers that question and then turns the answer into a visual device. In that way, the answer is permanently a part of the landscape of work-because it is physically imbedded. In this way they gain control of their corner of the world.  This week, we focus on the second driving question:
"What do I need to share?"
 
What Do I Need to Share?
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Did You Know...
In 1985 Stasser and Titus published a psychology study which found that people trying to make decisions in groups spend most of their time telling each other things that everyone already knows. In fact, people are unlikely to bring up new information known only to themselves--the information that would make a true I-driven change in the work environment.
The result: poor decisions. To shift that paradigm, see information on "What Do I Need to Share?" in this week's Feature Article.

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