Cross – Company Mentoring Programe

TataGroup – India’s largest conglomerate is putting in place a cross – company mentoring programme. This project will have 300 high potential women executives mentored by 180 CXO’s and 35 CEO’s for 45 group companies.

Tata the country’s biggest employer of women at 1.45 lakh, has limited number of women in CXO’s position.

The aim of the project is: To have more women in leadership position and it forms a gender diversity vision. At present the current gender diversity ratio is merely 10 % at the top level.

The features of the project are:

·      A women executive will not be restricted to the leaders in the company she operates in;

·         She gets wider network of leaders to choose from.

·         Acts as a retention tool, shielding women managers from dropping out.

The project has 2 phases: to elicit support for the programme; and to map mentors with mentees as well as logistics and technology framework.

This project provides an opportunity for Tata women employees to fulfill their potential and move up the ladder. Mentoring programme reinforces the grownups commitment to women and encourages them to stay and be an integral part of future leadership post.

 Source:  Jun 11 2016 : The Times of India (Chennai)

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