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Issue 2/Volume 1                            www.visualworkplace.com                                October 15, 2014   
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Upcoming Events
The Dakota MEP
Lean Consortium presents...

The Ten
Visual Workplace Doorways
,

 a webinar conducted by
Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD,
Visual Thinking Inc &
The Visual-Lean� Institute
October 15, 2014
1:00 - 3:00 PM CDT 
Join us for
the first in our monthly
Visual Edge Webinars!
Thursday/November 6
(Noon/Pacific ~ 3:00/EST)
Each month, Gwendolyn Galsworth, visual workplace expert and author of many award-winning books, conducts an hour-long LIVE webinar on a specific visual workplace topic. Dozens of topics and plenty of time for live answers your questions.
The First Thursday
of Every Month
Special intro price for the first two webinars: $45 each.
Email your questions to us at: [email protected]
UPDATE TO UK SEMINARS:
December 3 & 4: Dr. Galsworth takes The Principles & Practices of Visual Leadership to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in Sudbury, Suffolk,  and on
December 9, she brings Letting the Machine Speak to William Grants & Sons Distilleries, in Strathclyde, Scotland.
For information on how to join her at either location, contact us at: 503-233-1784 or [email protected]
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Visual Radio:  Building Your House
Listen to Gwendolyn this  Thursday at 10am
(Pacific) 
on www.VoiceAmerica.com 
 
This Week's Episode

Building Your House: the Top Three Floors (OSIT) 

(part of Galsworth's Visual Leadership Series)    

 

How do you turn a time-worn idea into an enterprise driver? How do you make what is as obvious as wallpaper striking and relevant--so you not only see it with fresh eyes but know exactly how to use it to drive operational improvement? This week...

Read More and Listen Live 

Feature Article
Use Motion as a
Time is the Shadow of Motion 

Lever: Become a Scientist of Visual Improvement   
by Gwendolyn Galsworth 
 
It's easy enough to make a visual device--or borrow an idea for one from something you saw in a book or at another workplace. Reproducing other people's ideas (as long as you say thank you) is a positive--and it can keep you going for a while. But not for very long. Unless you are a natural-born visual thinker (and they are very rare), you are going to run out of ideas--yours and everyone else's. And when you do, you will probably give up on the goal of creating a highly-functioning visual workplace simply because you can't think of any more ideas for devices. Tsk.  It doesn't have to be that way. Not if you become...
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Did You Know...
 

You can find out more about MOTION in Dr. Galsworth's Visual Workplace/Visual Order DVD, October's FEATURED PRODUCT.
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