Tata Power collaborated with SimuRise to prepare a high performing teams by equiping over 300 young engineering and management graduates with the real-world behaviors required for success, collaboration, trust, resourcefulness, and strategic thinking. Using a gamified business simulation, the learning experience created a strong mindset shift toward innovation and collective performance.
Introduction
Tata Power is one of India’s largest integrated power companies, with operations across the entire energy value chain from generation and distribution to coal, freight, logistics, and trading. With its growing focus on clean energy, innovation, and national expansion, Tata Power consistently invests in preparing high performing teams.
As part of this commitment, over 300 young engineering and management graduates were inducted into the organization. These high-potential professionals were about to be deployed across different geographies, expected to lead change, contribute to strategic initiatives, and embody Tata Power’s core values.
But before that, they needed something more than orientation.
They needed an experience that would shape how they think, collaborate, and solve problems as high performing teams and future leaders.
Objective
Tata Power partnered with SimuRise to:
- Build strategic thinking and collaboration among early-career professionals
- Develop decision-making, risk-taking, and problem-solving capabilities
- Inculcate a mindset shift from individual competition to collective success
- Prepare the cohort to align with Tata Power’s innovation and growth vision
The Intervention
SimuRise, in collaboration with the HR team, designed a high-impact, 3.5-hour immersive business simulation called Creating Tomorrow Today.
This wasn’t a lecture or workshop. It was a real-time, high-energy simulation experience designed to mimic workplace complexities and the power of interdependence.
Participants worked in cross-functional teams, made critical decisions under constraints, and navigated challenges that demanded:
- Strategic planning
- Effective use of limited resources
- Clear communication
- And most importantly, asking for and offering help
The simulation rewarded collaboration over competition, initiative over passivity, and reflection over reaction.
Impact
The shift was visible by the end of the session.
- Graduates who began the session working in silos, quickly realized that success depended on team alignment.
- Many showed a willingness to seek help and offer support—a big leap from the usual self-sufficiency mindset seen in high-performing individuals.
- Resourcefulness improved. Participants used what they had more wisely, and leaned into shared accountability.
The most powerful change?
A clear movement from “I need to win” to “We need to succeed.”
This mindset aligned perfectly with Tata Power’s long-term goals—to build leaders who work together to solve the energy challenges of tomorrow.
Conclusion
Through an immersive simulation experience, Tata Power created a culture shift at the very beginning of its future leaders’ journey.
These 300+ professionals didn’t just learn about leadership traits. They experienced them.
By stepping into simulated complexity, they built muscles in collaboration, innovation, and strategic thinking. All within a few hours. Because great leaders aren’t trained by instruction. They’re shaped through experience.
