Visual Thinking/Visual Workplace Seminar - Classroom Only (1 Day Class)
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The Visual Workplace is the language of lean production made visual— available at a glance, as close to the point of use as possible. |
Lots of people have heard about the visual workplace. Some even work in companies that have begun to become one. But not many understand the science of visuality—why it works, how it works, what it looks like, and why you need it. Even fewer know how to cultivate a workforce of visual thinkers who can build an enterprise that speaks, functions, and succeeds through the language of visuality.
The visual workplace is a compelling operational necessity, crucial to meeting daily production goals, central to a company’s war on waste, and fundamental to vastly reduced lead times and an accelerated process flow. The Visual Workplace is the language of lean production made visual— available at a glance, as close to the point of use as possible
An information-scarce environment is a breeding ground for defects, delays, and distrust. Low-tech/ high impact, visual devices and mini-systems offer extraordinary solutions to chronic information deficits in the workplace. Designed to share complex, detailed information accurately, quickly and 
completely with the people who need it the most—your employees, visual devices hold the operational intelligence of your company. The result? A workplace that speaks, able at last to tell us exactly where things are, what needs to be done, by when, in what quantity, by whom, and how—created by a workforce that knows how to think visually.
In this dynamic seminar, Dr. Galsworth, one of the world’s leading visual experts and author of award-winning books, gives you her blueprint for implementing a visual workplace, derived from nearly 30 years of research and application in the field. This blueprint spans the gamut of visual inventions and has, at its core, six levels with distinct methodologies each a building block of a fully-functioning visual work environment.
Course Outline
Classroom-Based Learning
This seminar provides a conceptual understanding of the visual workplace and overviews the methodology for implementing and sustaining visuality in operations. In addition to learning about the necessary definitions, tools, principles, and methods for implementing the technologies of the visual workplace, you will contemplate and consider over one hundred examples of visual solutions from workplaces in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Europe.
This full-day seminar walks you through three learning modules of visual workplace principles and practices and over 100 actual visual solutions from companies that have undergone (or currently are undergoing) a visual conversion.
- Module I: The Basics of Workplace Visuality
Learn how visual devices translate information into exact behavior and about the categories of visual function so you can better diagnose your current level of visuality as well as your next steps.
Understand how visuality exposes problems, setting a foundation for a robust problem solving process. - Module II: Doorways & Technologies/Ways to Get There
Learn about the doorways into a visual workplace; the difference between metrics that monitor and metrics that drive; I-driven inventiveness (the kind that lasts); how to build adherence into operations and sustainment into your lean gains (the Visual-Lean® Alliance); how visuality not only creates a spirited, engaged and empowered workforce…it drives it across all organizational levels and makes it sustainable. - Module III: The Five reasons for Workplace Visuality
Learn the five powerful reasons for the visual workplace products impressive bottom-line results, on and off the production floor.
Each seminar attendee receives a copy of Dr. Galsworth’s Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking book and a manual of the presentation for use during the seminar and as an on-going reference.
Who Should Attend
This event is specifically designed to show the following organizational groups the true scope of power of workplace visuality, its strategic importance, and the principles of implementation—no matter the venue—bank, office, hospital, discrete and continuous flow manufacturing, open-pit mine, dry cleaners, retail, government agency and/or the military:
- CEOs, Executives, Owners, Presidents, VPs of Operations, VPS of Strategic Improvement
- Change agents, trainers, lean project leaders and coordinators, 5S coaches, CI agents, staff and subject matter experts.
- Union executives and stewards.
- Engineering and technical staff; quality technician and managers; HR personnel.
- Supervisors and teams on the value-add level.
- CI agents for offices and non-production areas.
Price: $800.00 ($700.00 if the participant is taking 2 or more workshops at one location)
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