ETP
Engaged Team Performance (ETP) combines process streamlining with best practices in teamwork, collaboration, and productivity.
The key to Engaged Team Performance lies in completely integrating processes, measures, team goals, visual work, collaborative norms, and organization to work efficiently and effectively for the customer and the business.
Engaged Team Performance™ (ETP) is all about:
- Capable, effective processes with efficient flow
- Focus to deliver consistently on critical customer requirements
- Visual and available data for immediate decision-making
- The right staffing and resources for sustainable capacity
- Deep personal skills and knowledge, supported by a long-term development plan
- Standards and accountabilities for both team and individual performance
- Cross-functional organization with norms to support collaboration and flexibility
- Strong, yet engaging leadership that lets the team own the execution
- Team goals with incentives for team success, supported by individual standards
The 8-step ETP deployment process is:
Commit to Change
Find a burning platform for change
Measure and Analyze the Process
Investigate the current process and customer requirements, and measure outcomes and work standards
Streamline the Work
Improve the flow of the process to deliver value efficiently
Make the Work and Data Visible
Make the new work processes, collaborative norms, and control measures visually obvious in the workplace
Organize the Team
Reorganize and right-size the team for the work
Set Team Goals
Assess team performance and establish team goals
Lead the Transition
Make a rational plan, and develop the skills, tools, systems, and knowledge to move the team to the envisioned future state
Sustain Engaged Team Performance
Demonstrate performance over time!
In the end, ETP drives a different way of thinking, both for employees and leaders. As one leader put it during a tour of an ETP-certified area:
“Well, you might think this is a bad thing, but I spend a half-hour every morning to make sure the metrics are posted and the team sees them. We have a team huddle to discuss the current status, yesterday’s performance, and any special situations.”
Heads nodded. One person commented, “Yeah, we’d never have the extra time to do that data work.” Just for a moment, I was worried.
But then the tour guide / leader said, “And after that, I don’t have to do anything special to make sure the work gets done. I don’t have to check to make sure people are working. I don’t have to move resources around. I don’t have to baby-sit anything or anybody. The team takes care of the work. The difference is that I spend a half-hour on the metrics and then I get to be proactive all day. I get to spend the day doing my job, interacting with our customers and developing people.” Wow.
Downloadable synopsis
Download a synopsis of Building Engaged Team Performance (McGraw-Hill, October 2010)