ETM

EFFICIENT TEAM MANAGEMENT

ETM, or "Efficient Task Management," revolutionizes how teams achieve excellence by optimizing resources and enhancing collaboration. Dive into a world where precision and peak performance are the norms. Discover how ETM can transform your organization into a powerhouse of efficiency. Curious to learn more? Explore the possibilities with ETM.

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WHAT IS EFFICIENT TEAM MANAGEMENT (ETM)

Efficient Team Management

The Efficient Team Manager mentors the whole team and enables them to be successful as a team.

A team member's mood:
"We succeeded, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!"

When should you use ETM?

Team management works best when teams can operate autonomously with a highly developed culture of responsibility, mutual collaboration, and respect.

Team members define their roles, and managers only step in for issues beyond the team's control. Continuous improvement is a core trait.

Characteristics Benefits and challenges of ETM

TEAM Management:

Characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages

CHARACTERISTICS:

Principle: Managing targets implies taking responsibility for success!

Purpose: Create conditions for the team to succeed

Responsibility of the Manager:

Clarify the targets for the team and ensure the team's commitment
Empower the team to autonomously organize itself and optimize its performance to achieve its targets
Enable the team to succeed
Communicate with the team about status targets, scope, priorities, status, and constraints. For example: "I expect you as a team to complete this project by the close of the year. This project has the highest priority after the current project..."
The manager expects the team to collaborate and continuously improve!
The team members define and execute the activities that are necessary to achieve the expected results or targets as soon as possible.

Expectation towards team member: Contribute to achieving the team's targets!

Team member’s mood: We are successful. We are the champions!

BENEFITS:

The team is responsible for optimizing its own performance.
The manager may achieve the highest level of responsibility and commitment from team members: organization, planning, execution, and steering are all done by the team.
The team members manage themselves.
The team steers itself to maximize its output.
Deviations from the target are quickly recognized and addressed by the team.
The team generally achieves top performance.
The manager plays a mentoring role and has free capacity for management duties.
The team's performance depends entirely on the ability of its members.
The team motivation and engagement are usually very high.

CHALLENGES

A target-oriented leadership mindset and a highly collaborative leadership style should be part of the team culture.
The team requires a continuous improvement culture to keep addressing causes of deviations and disturbances.
The team culture may put pressure on lower-performing team members who do not meet the team's performance standards.

How to best implement ETM

Implement or upgrade your ETM with guaranteed success with the experienced assistance offered by CONBENE

1. Know the status quo of your team and its potential

An ETM quick check systematically provides a good overview of the status quo of the team. A quick check creates awareness of both the obvious and the hidden potential in your team to boost the team’s performance. As a result, you may prioritize measures to focus your efforts on the main levers to raise your team’s performance while reducing stress levels and lowering your efforts to manage the team.

The ETM training provides managers with the practical knowledge and understanding of the key principles, methods, and success factors required to manage teams efficiently while improving performance. Starting with the fundamental principles of lean and agile team management, it goes further to guide managers on how to apply these principles on a daily basis by establishing the right mix between management style, leadership tasks, roles, behavior, and tools.

2. ETM Masterclass

3. Achieving higher team performance using ETM

Most managers wish to implement or upgrade the ETM approach in their teams but lack the time and systematic approach to ensure smooth and sustainable implementation. They also see the challenges in managing the accompanying change process within the team.

For such cases, our well-established and systematized on-site ETM implementation procedure ensures secure and fast implementation to quickly achieve maximum benefit.

On-site implementation support by our experienced ETM consultants includes:

Preparing the manager to feel confident in the ETM leadership role and to apply the concepts optimally
Preparing the team to positively welcome the change and be prepared to take on more responsibility to improve their performance.
Providing the methods and tools needed to ensure that the team gets the sustainable benefits from the ETM approach.

4. Keep improving and stabilize the team's performance

Implementing ETM leads to an improvement in the collaboration and leadership cultures within the team.

Leading this change process while consistently applying the ETM method to maintain a high performance level is a key responsibility of the manager.

Experienced ETM coaches provide the manager and the team with the necessary support needed to effectively keep improving the team's performance in a sustainable way.

Exchanging experience and learning from peers who have extensive experience in applying ETM are valuable sources of inspiration and motivation for every manager.

Our best-practice partners from a wide range of industries and sectors willingly open their company doors to share their valuable experiences with others and to also learn from visitors and keep improving.

5. Learn from the best and share best practices

It's your turn

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