12:00PM PACIFIC
Wed, December 3
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.
|
RESCHEDULED
Still time to Register!
SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP IN THE UK
x
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
|
| Visual Tip:
If people have trouble reading a font, they will transfer that feeling of difficulty to the meaning of the text itself and decide that the subject matter is also hard to understand.
x
The font that recent study participants found made the written material "most believable"?  with Georgia a close second. (The same content was rated as least believable when printed in Comic Sans.) x
And by the way, serif and sans serif fonts are equal in terms of readability. |
Editor's column will return next week with an
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
|
|
 |
|
|
Visual Radio: The Visual Machine
|
Listen to Gwendolyn this Thursday at 10am
This Week's Episode
The Visual Machine: Let the Machine Speak Do you have unplanned machine downtime? Are quality problems related to machine and operator performance plaguing your planning? Are quick changeovers not quick at all? The Visual Machine� solves these challenges and more. When machine visuality is missing, we are forced to resort to memory, word-of-mouth, costly trial-and-error...   |
|
Doorway 4:
Visual Leadership & The Big Picture
by Gwendolyn Galsworth
Born leaders are rare in every venue and industry. Visual leadership asks and answers the challenge: Can non-specialized people learn the behaviors of gifted leadership? Said another way, without the charismatic personality we all seem to prefer in our leaders-and without inheriting the position of leader because of family ties, is there a way for normally skilled men and women to become leaders of distinction by using visual tools or constructs that oblige them to adopt leader-like behaviors? Visuality answers with a resounding and assured YES...
|
This Month's Featured Product
|
On Sale through December 31st!
At last! A book that teaches how to go beyond 5S and train, implement, coach, support, and sustain visual inventiveness on the operator-level. This is a must-read for all levels of the organization. Based on nearly 30 years in the field, author Gwendolyn Galsworth, foremost authority on workplace visuality, provides value-add associates with a methodology and hundreds of full-color actual visual solutions for converting their own work areas into visual workplaces. The result? Visuality becomes the imbedded language of operational excellence-and the workplace speaks. Across eleven chapters and over 500 full-color examples and charts, you will learn a clear and complete step-by-step protocol for transforming organizations into well-functioning visual workplaces-and operators into visual thinkers of the first order. If there is one book to buy to advance your excellence journey, Work That Makes Sense is it.
Regular Price: $55 USD
On sale through December 31st: $44 USD
|
| And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To... |
 | |
Thanks to Joe Ovenden, PPG
|
|
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!
|
Objects communicate to you about how you can, and should, interact with them. Doorknobs invite you to grab and turn them. The handle on a coffee mug tells you to curl a few fingers through it and lift up. If you want people to take action on an object, you need to make sure that they can easily perceive, figure out, and interpret what the object is and what they can and should do with it.
-S. Weinschenk,
100 things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
|
|
|
