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driving. In this way, they become improvement decision-makers and leaders who align and inspire. Hand-in-hand, Galsworth develop a second set of skills and tools that enables supervisors and managers to shift their identities from managing and expediting logistics to becoming authentic leaders of improvement on a day-to-day basis. Her ability to create learning pathways that develop visual thinking in participants continued.
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process that allows managers to define, design, and develop highly integrated improvement activities and outcomes anchored in self-feedback work systems that are congruent with the work of J.M. Forrester. Central to her approach is a template of seven interactive elements that allow each such work system to self-learn and self-correct based on the designed behavior of each of those elements.
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Systems: Harnessing the Power of the Visual Workplace (Amacom). This was followed in 1998 by Visual Workplace/Visual Order Associate Handbook and Visual Workplace/Visual Order Instructor Guide (Visual-Lean Enterprise
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at the top of her Latin class. After teaching Latin in New Jersey, she started an acting career in New York, studying at the Gene
Frankel Studio and performing in many traditional, experimental, and off-B’way plays. Galsworth traveled to Europe where she studied French at the
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order to de-complicate the enterprise, end-to-end (“all costs adhere to the part”). She wrote a second edition to this book in 2014, entitled Smart Simple Design/Reloaded: Variety Effectiveness and the Cost of Complexity (Visual-Lean Enterprise Press).
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Visuality, was published in 2011 (Visual-Lean Enterprise Press), with a second edition published by Productivity Press in 2022. Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense are both recipients of the Shingo Publication Award.
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is an American President and Founder of Visual Thinking Inc and also an author, researcher, teacher, consultant, publisher and leader in the field of visuality in the workplace and visual management. Her books have won multiple
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invited Galsworth to create an online course on the visual workplace as part of its newly launched Shingo Prize eCurriculum in Operational Excellence. Hers was the first external course in this curriculum.
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conference circuit and hosted a weekly web-based radio show for seven years, initially called “The Visual Workplace” and then “Visual Workplace Radio.”
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