WE WOMEN LEADERS
A high-powered 6-month intervention designed by Interweave Consulting in collaboration with and for Reliance Retail’s women leaders
Reliance strongly affirms the fact that inclusion across all dimensions of diversity is the right way to conduct business and that doing this also unleashes tremendous competitive advantages in innovation, creativity, productivity, team cohesion, customer-connect, and business effectiveness.
Reliance Retail – We Women Leaders, Batch of 2020
The leadership at Reliance Retail is committed to driving deeper inclusion in the organisation and making this program successful. This initiative would have not been possible without the support of Mr G R Venkatesh and Mr V Subramaniam.
Here’s how Interweave Consulting & Reliance Retail’s leadership helped enable every woman leader’s journey.
What Interweave set out to do.
A holistic program to prepare participants for leadership roles, opportunities and challenges was at the heart of our mission and included the following milestones –
- Augment leadership competencies and managerial capabilities.
- Embolden participants with strong career development strategies.
- Enable women leaders to become powerful contributors to long-term corporate success.
A POWERFUL AND IMMERSIVE INTERVENTION
– Designed and facilitated by Interweave Consulting
The program was mindfully designed for women leaders to re-examine and challenge traditional boundaries and develop a sense of desire, legitimacy, and entitlement for leadership. A pre-workshop survey helped set up the AS-IS state of participants helping the team at Interweave custom design the modules to the individual and collective needs of participants.
Insights from the survey led to the creation of a 6-month program designed to create competency building interactions, classroom modules, and innovative learning engagements with the participants.
20 women leaders, advanced their leadership journey over a 6-month intervention designed for growth. A glimpse into their experiences.
What the 6 months integrated virtual program included :
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ClassRoom Training
The training focused on personal branding, networking and influencing skills, work-life balance, managing inner and external conflict, and goal setting.
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Deeply collaborative and innovative journey of Self Discovery
Each participant’s journey was triggered through participative tools such as self-awareness assessments, innovative simulation exercises, role play-based learning, and art inspired training methodologies.
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Nudge calls to help participants put their leadership strategies into practice.
Interweave actively engaged with individual participants through – regular ‘nudge’ calls. The calls helped participants actively exercise leadership strategies and hone their individual leadership styles.
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Designed a unique internal mentoring program to keep leaders learning.
A structured internal mentoring program custom-designed for Reliance Retail identified internal mentors and created learning opportunities designed to boost confidence across business interactions and scenarios. This learning was facilitated through interactive internal workshops.
Impact of Interweave’s Women’s Leadership intervention at Reliance Retail.
- It enabled Reliance Retail to foster a culture of inclusiveness by connecting high potential women who can lean on each other for continuous support and learning.
- The platform led to an active digital community of Reliance women leaders supporting each other on their leadership journey.
- The participants felt more confident and capable of bringing an evolved approach to their management style.
Flying Lessons – Interweave’s women-only leadership program invites organizations to invest in their emerging women leaders. A curriculum customized to support high-potential leaders at multiple levels to augment their professional growth, and gender equity in the workplace. Get in touch to design your organization’s journey towards an inclusive workplace.
