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At
GE Work-Out, participants are made feel the urgency to change things and begin
to see the whole picture of the situation. Then, they are
ready to focus on new ideas.
How can the process be
improved? What can be
done
differently to achieve the
stretch goal?
Using the process map as a starting point,
Work-Out asks participants to
brainstorm ways of achieving the goal, and then provides a structure for
quickly sorting through the ideas, selecting the best ones, and developing
them into recommendations for
change. As with any
brainstorming process,
Work-Out encourages people to toss out any idea, no matter how minor, how
crazy, how seemingly impossible. And the process helps people learn how to
think laterally and ,
think "out-of-the-box,
build on each other's ideas,
and
combine ideas.
In fact,
when the old Aetna Insurance Company
implemented its version of Work-Out,
the program's sponsors called it "Out of the Box."
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