A software company offering software as a service (SaaS)-based, On-premises software and services in areas including cloud computing, IT service management, automation, IT operations, and mainframe.
The expectation was to develop a comprehensive programme for women employees across levels with an intention of making them understand the value of:
The purpose of the pre-programme study was collecting data for designing and customizing the intervention and understanding the expectations of the women participants and their perspective of women leaders within the company. The questions and interactions were framed accordingly.
Participants confessed that their organization was a great place to work and had women friendly policies. But they all felt the need of ‘more collaboration’ and guidance to direct the path to professional growth along with being assertive in certain situations.
It also helped in the introspection and increase participant’s urge to attend the sessions.
It was observed that the participants were keen and looking forward to attend the sessions stating they aimed to consistently climb the ladder of success and give their best.
The assessment questionnaire captured the data from the individuals as well as their managers. The questions addressed the competencies based on following themes-
Accountability, handling emotions, power of collaboration, hidden biases, confidence and credibility, assertiveness and developing gravitas.
Commitment, team player, hard-working, and readiness to take challenges. And the areas of development were: taking positive feedback from others and handling the conflicting situation.
The module sessions consisted of live facilitator led virtual modules, which included virtual learning tools like chat, annotations, breakout rooms, whiteboards, polling, word clouds, non-verbal feedback, private chat with the facilitator, videos, images etc.
These were used to create differentiated instruction to cater to differences in needs, levels and learning styles of the participants and to provide them with a flexible, experiential and engaging virtual learning experience to the participants.
The modules were conducted by different facilitators and had Group Coaching sessions in between the modules.
“Our team understood the importance of well-being and the intervention helped them identify ways to de-stress themselves. Also, the new ways of training delivery with the help of pods and digital connect ensured the connect between themselves as well as facilitator in between the modules.”
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