A weekly newsletter about letting the workplace speak
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY
WED, DEC 3, 12:00PM PACIFIC
The Visual Lean Institute presents a
LIVE WEBINAR
with Gwendolyn Galsworth  THE TEN DOORWAYS
Find out how to reach operational excellence by empowering every level of your workforce
The session will last one hour, with the last 10 minutes reserved for live answers to your questions.
Register to attend for only $45
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SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP IN THE UK
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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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If you measure satisfaction or other feelings, you'll get more positive ratings if you ask people a few days after the interaction, than if you ask them while they are in the middle of the interaction.
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Visual Radio:
The Senses, Brain Function & Cows
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
The Senses, Brain Function & Cows in Colorado (A HAPPY THANKSGIVING ENCORE) What happens when trainers engage our senses and our brain in the training room? We learn! We learn through the body/brain connection. Savvy trainers know that whatever our senses experience gets transmitted to the brain. If we feed the senses as we share knowledge...  | | Traditional rails-over-pit cattle guard keeps cattle on the ranch |
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Complex Assembly Display. This meticulous production display at Rolls-Royce tracks complex sub-assemblies. Work order magnets move across bands of color--each representing a given operation or stage. Other feeder functions surround the central display area.
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Doorway 3:
Visual Displays
(The Supervisor's Need-To-Know)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
Supervisors, managers, and schedulers own Doorway Three. Open it and you discover visual displays. Visual displays are the higher form of visual standards-because they capture visual answers to the same range of operational questions as visual standards (where, what, when, who, how many, and how) but in a real-time, highly-interactive, centrally-located format. Among their remarkable characteristics, visual displays are capable of holding vast amounts of inter-related information in real time, for all to see, enabling...
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Deliveries Display. This display, located on the dock in a high-volume assembly plant, has pockets for the range of possible delivery orders from key vendors. The supervisor who created it wanted to: a) know the actual delivery schedule at a glance, and b) to move orders around if the unexpected happens.
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This Month's Featured Product
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On Sale through November 30th!
Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth's Shingo Award winning book, Visual Workplace/ Visual Thinking is written for executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and coaches, providing a robust discussion of visual principles and practices, based on 30 years of field work by the author. The goal of the book is to establish visual thinking as a foremost methodology for continuous improvement, with information on how to attain this by creating a workforce of visual thinkers. Over 200 full-color images and examples are shared. Galsworth discusses the visual and lean paradigms and how to bring them into the alignment needed to achieve operational excellence and make it sustainable.
Regular Price: $55 USD
On sale through November 30th: $40 USD
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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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From the Editor: Visual Perspectives for Thanksgiving
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 You take your child's hand to walk him across the street. The picture in your head at that moment is of him staying safe from passing cars. You take your elderly parent's hand or arm to guide her to the car. The picture in your head at that moment is of her getting to her destination without stumbling or falling. But what does it look like from the outside? The outside observer sees the clasp of your hands as a display of a deep emotional bond. They see warmth, affection, commitment, and nurturing protectiveness. That image of you may make them smile, and give them a warm moment of their own remembrance, a reminder of the better things in the world. We all get very immersed in the needs, musts, shoulds. Caring for another human being can fall into that list. This week, when you take someone's hand to keep them safe, keep them in line, keep them nearby, remember what the observer sees in that gesture, and infuse that spark--that moment of caring--into the touch of your hand. Be in that moment with the person you touch, just long enough for you both to remember that they are not a burden you have to shepherd but a person who is dear to your heart. Our warm wishes to you for a Happy Thanksgiving holiday.
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief
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