Accelerate business and cultural change!
Many top-tier companies have successfully adapted the WorkOut process
for their organizations and have realized:
- tremendous results in faster and better execution to
serve their customers
- cycle time reduction
- cost savings
- revenue enhancement
- productivity improvement
WHAT IS WORKOUT?
WorkOut is a powerful tool for accelerating business
and cultural change across all functions in an organization. There are four critical
components of the WorkOut process.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:
- First, it starts with identifying Critical Business Issues. Preferably
measurable and quantifiable, theses issues are complex, requiring
an array of expertise, usually involving people from different
functions in the organization.
- The second component, and the heart of the process, is
people working together in Cross-functional Teams. Much
different than typical team problem-solving models, people
closest to the issue
are brought together in intensive 2-4 day professionally
facilitated WorkOut sessions. This intensive teaming
experience results in innovative,
actionable recommendations supported by concrete action
plans. The teaming experience also removes obstacles
between functions, develops
stronger working relationships, and provides a model of
how people can work together more effectively.
- How Leaders Make Decisions is the third component. On
the last afternoon of the WorkOut session, the leaders
comprising the
decision-making team come to the Session to hear the teams
present their recommendations. They will make decisions
on the spot with either
a “Yes” or “No”.
- Lastly, the WorkOut Process acts
to Facilitate Change. It provides a means to attain quantifiable
business improvement
while providing a “continuous-learning opportunity” for
changing how people work together.
THREE WORKOUT PHASES
WORKOUT CASE STUDIES
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