A report documenting how 15 ESEs best support participant workers after they have graduated from the ESE program.
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Employee Success Program
An Employee Success Program refers to the structured set of activities and services that employment social enterprises provide to their participant workers in order to remove barriers to employment, provide meaningful skills-building and work experience, and to ensure that workers are set up for long-term success in the labor force and lasting economic mobility.
The set of resources within the Employee Success Program section will help orient you to a) what Employee Success Programs are ,broken down by its key elements, with examples of the types of structures and activities REDF typically encounters amongst its ESE community, b) how ESEs develop a theory of change and logic models to represent the flow of activities provided and the participant worker outcomes sought, and c) a range of tactical tools, templates, and best practices related to all aspects of ensuring long-term participant worker success.
All Employee Success Resources
A barrier / needs assessment process helps employee success program staff understand a participant worker’s barriers and needs upon entering the program and aids in tracking their progress over time.
The Supervisor Onboarding & Training presentation is an example of a cohesive package of training material for onboarding new supervisors at an employment social enterprise.
Founder Joe DeLoss shares with REDF his approach to employee recruitment and retention, and shares some best practices and lessons learned along the way.
The table provides an overview of six different assessment tools that ESEs can consider using to understand the baseline needs of their participant workers and measure progress over time.
This session is designed for ESEs that offer, are building, or hoping to improve the employee success structures within their enterprise. Additionally, these leaders are considering what elements outside of a paycheck promote a greater sense of wellbeing for participants and employees.
This engaging and interactive session explores the foundational elements of building a strong and sustainable workforce program by identifying your organization's core strengths and aligning them with a strategic partnership ecosystem.
Throughout Hopeworks' two sessions, they detail the difference between becoming a “trauma-aware” organization (one that does the same things it always did but uses the language of trauma to describe it in new ways) and an actually trauma-informed organization (one in which outcomes and performance are radically different from using trauma informed tools).
This session explores designing and sustaining values-centered elements of the participant employee experience in ESEs, which can increase participant employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
This interactive session explores strategies for increasing employee competitiveness in the job market and equipping ESEs with tools to improve long-term workforce outcomes, including economic power.