Imagine this: a beautifully-baked cake left in the rain—dissolving into nothing. That’s how it can feel when your improvement initiative hits the skids. You launch. You follow the rules. You gain momentum and start getting results.
Did you prepare to get started? Did you get ready for success? Did you launch? Yes! Congratulations! Next question: Can you relax? Next answer: Sorry, no! Yes, you accomplished 12 of the 25 tasks that need to be in place to support improvement success.
Strange how most of us believe change happens. Strange how we believe companies learn and improve. Stranger yet is how we seek to validate the progress we think we’re making by attending to exact technical causes and the concrete logic of the physical.
How do you celebrate the completion of the ordinary? Who would want to come to that party? Getting ready for a successful visual conversion begins many weeks before the first training session—and it looks like a long list of mundane, humdrum tasks.
Q: How many ways can your improvement initiative fail? A: Nearly uncountable. Q: How many ways can you succeed? A: Well, that depends on how many of 25 success principles and practices you implement—before and during your roll out.
Some US politicians have provocative notions about Mexico and its society. They talk about keeping the Mexican people out of the USA—while, in the view of other political leaders, we should be looking for ways to bring more Mexicans in.
Did you know: 50 percent of our brain function is dedicated to seeing and interpreting visual data? Yes, that’s the way we make sense out of all that we see—and we humans see a great deal.
Is there a part of us so hidden from view that decades can pass without anyone noticing that we possess a rich and creative interior life? And is it possible that even then we ourselves may not take it that seriously—until one day we do? We just do.
Question: How big are chronic information deficits in the workplace? Answer: HUGE!!! Imagine Godzilla and you are approaching the right size.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
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