Rubicon and WorkOut

We were first introduced to Workout in 1993 during our WorkOut facilitators training programme at GE and have been passionate practitioners and advocates of it ever since.

Technically

Invented by GE in the late 1980’s, WorkOut is a robust process that brings together groups of people, typically over 1-3 days, to reduce, remove or eradicate the day-to-day ‘questionable work activities’ and bureaucracy - or as we call it at Rubicon “the daily pain that delivers little or no gain” All of which get in the way of the team, function or organisation achieving their goals.

Basically

WorkOut provides you and your organisation with a process and toolkit that:

• Acts as both a catalyst or support process to business improvement (It dovetails nicely with Six Sigma and Lean)


• Drives practical problem solving and rapid decision making


• Is accessible to everyone

Practically

The WorkOut process is incredibly reliable & flexible. It can be run as a large scale event, over 3 days to address organisational goals or targets (It’s what your organisations ‘Green Goals’ have been waiting for!) or used for half a day within a team or department to address their immediate ‘Burning Platform’.

One of the side benefits of introducing WorkOut within your organisation is that the skills and competencies of your people in facilitation, analysis, problem solving and presentation increase dramatically – even the people who at the beginning of the process say “I don’t mind getting stuck in…I just don’t want to present” yet end up presenting a passionate business case for change!

The following fundamental principles are at the heart of WorkOut:

• The people who do the work really do know the most about it, so are therefore best placed…and most motivated to improve it


• People put the most energy into solving the problems that affect them…and therefore care most about


• The best solutions emerge when people are experientially involved in in the ‘Problem – Solution” process

That’s why WorkOut works – because it puts the problem solving power right where it needs to be!

Here’s just one of the results one client achieved through one of the Workout events we facilitated:

• 6000 staff hours ‘freed-up’ per annum (based on a 1.5 day Workout event)

Now’s the time to find out more about what Workout can do for you…so as they say in the world of reality TV shows - “Pick up the phone” It would make our day!