In this hands-on lab, participants will learn how to explore multiple time horizons, identify early signals of change, and map possible futures—so they can better prepare for disruptions, amplify opportunities, and align action with long-term vision.
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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.
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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.
Attendees will learn about the core principles of TIC, understand its relevance in ESE settings, and explore practical strategies for integrating TIC into their work. The goal is to equip attendees with foundational knowledge of TIC to enhance their ability to support individuals who have experienced trauma, fostering more supportive and effective work environments.
This interactive session will support ESE leaders navigating the uncertainty and complexity that often arise in times of change. Attendees will explore how to recognize and move through fear as a gateway to courage, clarity, and meaningful action.
REDF CEO, Maria Kim and your fellow ESE leaders from around the country took a look at the state of our community halfway through the year both in terms of key enterprise data points, updates on the policy environment, REDF’s future strategy, valuable resources – including your peer network – and a heavy dose of inspiration and joy.
During this session we will explore the initial stages of interacting with potential employees including recruiting and outreach; interviewing and hiring; and onboarding and expectation-setting. Specifically, we'll cover the concepts behind the science of scarcity and the stages of readiness for change.
The focus of session 2 will be on the onboarding, employment, and performance management phase of the participant experience. You'll be prompted to draw the connections between program design, environmental modifications, and goal progression within your own programs.
In this final session with The Hub at New Moms we look at the last part of the enterprise experience: successfully making the leap to a new job. We’ll explore the relationship between goodness-of-fit matching and Executive Skills, and we’ll reference promising and best practices for post-employment program design, including case studies and new tools.
his engaging and interactive session explores how to tailor your Employee Success Program to best support your focus population. You will learn how to define employee success, apply human-centered design principles, and develop a supportive and effective participant employee experience.
This session is designed for ESEs that have relative confidence in the effectiveness of their business and employee success models, while also wondering how they can better integrate the two pieces and communicate their organizational model in a holistic way.