TAVANT Technologies’ DivHERsify Your Leadership (DYL) Program Breaking DIE Barriers
Authored by:
Rabab Haider | KNOLSKAPE Editorial Team
A leading digital products and services company, TAVANT Technologies launched the ‘DivHERsify Your Leadership’ program in partnership with KNOLSKAPE for a holistic and experiential learning to build leadership capability for the upcoming women leaders.
Industry
Digital products
and services company
Headquarters
California,
USA
No. of Employees
Approximately
3,000
Tavant is a digital products and solutions company delivering impactful results across industries like Consumer Lending, Manufacturing, Agro-tech, Media & Entertainment, and Retail in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Powered by AI and Machine Learning, their solutions drive efficiency, productivity, speed, and accuracy, helping businesses thrive in an interconnected world.
With digital innovation as their North Star, Tavant empowers enterprises to navigate and lead in a fast-evolving landscape. Their deep industry expertise and commitment to top-tier talent enable them to tackle complex, high-performance applications with cutting-edge technology.
Tavant aimed at Strengthening Women Leadership to Contribute to the Organization’s Growth
Tavant Technologies wished to empower their women leaders to advance their careers by breaking through existing barriers and confidently stepping into senior leadership roles. They wanted to strengthen team leadership capabilities, enabling women to lead high-performing teams and contribute to the organization’s future growth. A key focus was on developing core business skills such as effective problem-solving, decision-making, and business acumen, which are critical for impactful leadership. Additionally, they wanted to design a program which seeks to create awareness around unconscious bias and equip women leaders with the tools to recognize and overcome these challenges. By promoting big-picture thinking, the initiative also encourages a strategic and visionary approach, helping women leaders align their efforts with long-term organizational goals and drive meaningful change.
KNOLSKAPE Designed and Executed a Personalized DivHERsify Your Leadership (DYL) Program
KNOLSKAPE’s DivHERsify Your Leadership enabled women leaders to excel and deliver excellence in their roles with a holistic learning and development in focused competencies.
Learning Competencies Developed
Enhanced Leadership Skills:
- Understanding and application of various leadership styles (e.g., guiding, partnering, directing, entrusting).
- Strategies for motivating and engaging diverse team members effectively.
Design Thinking and Innovation:
- Mastery of iterative processes to innovate and enhance customer experience.
- Improved ideation, prototyping, and implementation of innovative solutions.
Business Acumen:
- Ability to balance strategy, finance, and customer-centric operations for profitability and market share.
- Recognition of training and service enhancements as vital to sustaining competitiveness.
Inclusivity and Bias Management:
- Identification and mitigation of unconscious biases to foster inclusive decision-making.
- Development of structured frameworks for mindful and equitable leadership
Happiness and Engagement:
- Tools to improve happiness and productivity at work using the BAMBA© model.
- Understanding the link between employee well-being and organizational success.
KNOLSKAPE’s Immersive Simulations Added Value to the Program
| Grand Prix: Critical Thinking for Better Decision Making
The Grand Prix simulation was designed to enhance participants’ critical thinking and decision-making capabilities. By placing participants in a dynamic and high-pressure virtual environment, this simulation replicated real-world scenarios where they had to:
- Analyze and interpret complex data sets to identify actionable insights.
- Navigate competing and sometimes conflicting priorities to achieve predefined objectives.
- Balance short-term wins with long-term strategic goals, requiring a clear understanding of trade-offs and their consequences.
The simulation encouraged participants to think on their feet, fostering a deeper understanding of how critical thinking principles could be applied to solve business problems effectively. By tackling these challenges, participants learned to make informed, data-driven decisions under uncertainty, a skill crucial for their roles in the company’s Product Development Team.
| iLead: A Simulation for you to Lead your Team Effectively
This simulation was designed to help participants build leadership capabilities by putting them in the role of a team manager. To succeed, participants used a variety of leadership styles in response to their team member’s needs, as well as tough situations, that emerged within the simulation.
| Develop Your Business: Developing Business Acumen
This simulation helped participants understand and practice business acumen by taking on the role of the CEO of a virtual company. Participants were expected to make decisions on pricing, production, marketing and human resource management to drive profit and achieve the organizational targets.
| UnBias: Overcoming Unconscious Biases at Work
KNOLSKAPE’s UnBias simulation put participants in the role of a leader whose aim was to help their team and organization combat unconscious biases. The simulation enabled the leaders to realize the impact of biases at work and the need to watch out for those unconscious biases. Participants were challenged to recognize and manage their own and others’ biases at work. This especially comes in handy if you’re a woman at work, in order to deal with biases coming from others you and vice.
| Happiness@Work: Leading Teams
KNOLSKAPE’s Happiness@Work simulation, based on Professor Raj Raghunathan’s BAMBA© Model of Happiness, helped this program in bridging the gap between the theory and application. It equipped the participating leaders with tools to enhance happiness and boost engagement and productivity of their teams and the organization at large.
| Design Thinking: Driving Innovation Through Design Thinking
The Design Thinking Simulation was designed to help learners change the way they approach problems and problem solving. This simulation put learners in the role of a leader of a business who were facing severe growth concerns and challenges them to achieve rapid growth and great customer experience in a short span of time.
Impact
- 50 participants underwent this journey
- Average session feedback of 9/10
- The virtual learning format made the sessions highly scalable and participants found them interesting.
- Improvement in the productivity and motivational levels of participants.
Leadership Outcomes:
- Participants demonstrated an increased ability to apply contextually appropriate leadership styles.
- Enhanced team motivation and performance through improved engagement strategies.
Business Outcomes:
- Stronger focus on market segmentation and targeting led to improved alignment with customer needs.
- Effective application of design thinking resulted in innovative solutions for business growth.
Organizational Impact:
- Greater inclusivity through bias reduction and awareness training.
- Emphasis on long-term investments in training and service enhancements for sustained success.
Testimonials
Here’s what our client has to say:
“KNOLSKAPE has been an exceptional partner in designing, developing, and delivering the ‘DivHersify Your Leadership’ – a Women Leadership Program. Their custom solution significantly benefited our organization. The interactive simulations and discussions were particularly effective, enabling participants to practice decision-making and explore various leadership topics.
The facilitator, Sunita Sawant, demonstrated excellent communication skills and a deep understanding of the subject matter, ensuring active participation and a comprehensive learning experience. Her ability to elucidate complex concepts through examples was highly appreciated by all attendees.
The program’s content was well-structured and relevant, with a strong emphasis on practical scenarios and frameworks. The case study discussions provided valuable insights into different leadership styles and business acumen. Overall, feedback from participants has been overwhelmingly positive, highlighting the program’s effectiveness in nurturing leadership brilliance.
We extend our sincere appreciation to KNOLSKAPE for their outstanding contribution and look forward to future collaborations.”
Sujatha Das
Global Head, Knowledge Excellence
TAVANT
Here’s what our learners have to say:
“The group discussions allowed us to brainstorm and arrive at collective solutions.”
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“I learned to manage different personalities within my team more effectively.”
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“The training helped me understand different leadership styles and when to apply them.”
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