A weekly newsletter about letting the workplace speak
Issue 29/Volume 2                www.VisualWorkplace.com                 July 22, 2015
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Did You Know...

The eye of a giant squid can measure the same as a volleyball ball.

Thought for the Week
Sometimes, people don't ask us directly for the answers they need. Instead, we see them wandering around our work area with no apparent purpose. You observe that happening and politely say, "You seem to be looking for something. Maybe I can help..." NOW you'll get the question. and you'll give the answer. And then you'll turn that answer into a visual device so that neither that person nor anyone else ever has to ask that same question again, and you will never need to answer it again.
  Visual Radio:  Doorway 1: 5S on Steroids 
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This Week's Episode
Doorway 1: 5S on Steroids
ENCORE
   

Why do so many 5S efforts get stalled? Why do so few get visual? This week, your host, Gwendolyn Galsworth, begins a detailed discussion of her Ten Doorway framework, starting with Doorway 1: Visual Order-Visual Inventiveness. This is not just a re-hashing of traditional 5S, with a neat, clean, and orderly work area as the outcome. In her approach, "clean/neat/orderly" just gets us to the starting line. By contrast, the goal she seeks is robust, operator-led visuality that, in many companies, triggers a 15%-30% increase in productivity and a spirited, engaged, and aligned workforce on the value-add level. Because this process also liberates supervisors from deadly repetitive support tasks, your supervisors can instead become leaders of improvement. Doorway 1: that indispensable first step on your journey to a fully-functioning visual workplace. Get informed. Get inspired. Let the workplace speak! Another great encore show.

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5S on Steroids
(by permission of 5S Supply www.5Ssupply.com)
Feature Article
Instead, check out Dr. Galsworth's
Sears Case Study video,
posted on our website.
It's FREE and SHORT
and full of good info and fun ideas!
And the Visual Fail Prize Goes To...
Ice cream, anyone?
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!
Visual Poem/Puzzle
Visual Tricks and Treats
Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to [email protected]