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Issue 4/Volume 2                www.VisualWorkplace.com                 January 28, 2015
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Thursday, February 12
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Automatic Recoil:
The Visual Where: Borders, Addresses,
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What borders are, how they work, and why Dr. Galsworth considers them the single most important element in achieving visual order. You will also see dozens of brilliant addresses and ID labels and learn how the absence of either can result in accidents, mix-ups, defects, long lead time-and a ton of struggle.


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Did You Know...
The human eye is sensitive to light and sounds.  University research studies show that mild and incidental noises cause the pupils of the eyes to dilate. According to David Louis's book of Fascinating Facts, it is believed that this is why surgeons, watchmakers, and others who perform delicate manual operations are so bothered by uninvited noise: the sounds cause their pupils to change focus and blur their vision.
From the Editor:
The Idea Window
The window of time for putting an idea into motion is small. There is only a tiny moment between inspiration and either follow-through or "never mind". Sure, you can write it down and store the idea in a drawer, or on a cork board, but the longer it sits on the shelf, the less likely you'll actually put it into motion.

Implement your visual idea today. If it's not helpful, having made a first try will allow your brain to stew on the better way. Your brain will find the correction that's needed. Better to experiment than leave the idea in your drawer. 
 
Cindy Lyndin
Editor-in-Chief
Visual Radio:  
Cultural Transformation
Listen to Gwendolyn this  Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) on
www.VoiceAmerica.com 
 
This Week's Episode

 

Cultural Transformation: How Visuality Does It
(ENCORE)
 Lean is capable of improving the operational profile of nearly every company-and fast! But we ask: When lean turn arounds are so rapid, can the culture be transformed as well? While it's possible, for most companies it is unlikely. And while many techniques impact cultural change, none is more powerful than the visual workplace in transforming a work culture completely and sustainably.
Feature Article
Hidden in Plain Sight
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.)

There is a reason why the principle of "seeing the whole value stream" begins with the word "seeing." We are beings of our senses and in most planetary societies, sight is dominant.  

 

Visuality is not simply seeing. A visual workplace imbeds meaning into the living landscape of work. In doing that it imbeds language. Move away from the notion of visuality as a useful but nonetheless inanimate collection of visual devices and systems, useful as aides to production. Move instead towards the paradigm that visuality is the ...

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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.

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And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To...
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and we'll put it here and credit you with the funny find!
Thought for the Week
The first part of a new job description for every CEO, president, plant manager, VP, manage, and supervisor is to help employees find and manifest the hero within. What would happen if you committed to helping each person who reports to you become a hero in their own work?
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