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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
NEW DATE--January 27:
Dr. Galsworth teaches
Letting the Machine Speak
at Grants & Sons Distilleries, in Strathclyde, Scotland
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From the Editor:
Common Ground
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Finding ourselves standing awkwardly next to a stranger, we talk about the weather. Why? Because it's something we all automatically have in common. We create rapport by establishing common ground, and the awkwardness eases.
This is one of the reasons we are so strongly drawn to visual solutions. They create common ground and establish clear and easy communication that transcends language, cultural background, and unfamiliarity. Next week's Feature Article will introduce Visual Displays--we look forward to sharing that wonderful tool with you.
As you consider using Visual Displays, think of them as the connection to other people--common ground that erases awkwardness, provides common talking points, makes a connection and builds a community.
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief
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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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Visual Radio:
Five things You Should Know About Visuality
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Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
Five Things You Should Know About Visuality Do you believe the visual workplace is merely a series of point solutions--helpful, even clever--but not much more? If so, your expectations of visuality are too small for the quantity of information deficits in your company. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth shares five telling perspectives on workplace visuality. This begins with the fact that visuality is a dynamic language, an imbedded vocabulary that makes your... 
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Doorway 2: Visual Standards (Are They Enough?)
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
Everyone in the enterprise makes a contribution to visuality in the workplace. Everyone must. The war against information deficits is impossible to win without participation from all organizational levels. This is exactly the message of my central organizing framework, The Ten Doorways. This week we put Visual Standards under the microscope, the category of visual function for Doorway 2. Doorway 2 recognizes managers, engineers, and supervisors as responsible for publishing timely, accurate and complete technical and procedural standards-and then making them visual.
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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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The most fundamental error managers can make at the earliest stage of a rich and productive transformation is to commandeer the simple task of implementing the visual where for themselves, in the interest of saving operators for more interesting improvement tasks.
When managers decide to implement the visual where themselves, they unintentionally rob the organization of a prime opportunity to empower the value-add level workforce. The dialogue must be between the employee and her/his own work.
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For those of us who have the privilege of seeing, 80% of what we learn is through our eyes.
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