Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

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. There is good reason for that: It is. But if you don’t do them, the likelihood of failure looms large. This week, Gwendolyn Galsworth, your host and visual expert, will walk you through the next six tasks on her 25-item list of how to get ready for a splendid visual transformation. This set of six is undertaken by your trainers and supervisors: 1) Define the new role for supervisors; 2) Decide on a border protocol (so they last a year but can be removed overnight); 3) Develop a color code system for borders; 4) Create ways to keep visual workplace supplies handy (and why); 5) Set up a communications center; and 6) Give money away to operators, with few strings attached. All before you launch.