Social enterprises can integrate financial wellness programming, both as a business and as a workforce program, to further increase the financial capabilities of the people they employ
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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
The evaluation, , is structured to address the general research question, How do social enterprises serve individuals with multiple barriers to employment?
One-on-one participant worker engagement (i.e., case management or coaching) is a collaborative process to guide and serve participant workers on their employment journeys.
This deep dive will cover some of the key components to implementing an effective job readiness assessment process, as well as share a tool that can help you do so.
The tool establishes a threshold for essential skills and personal readiness for social enterprise employees ready to move into competitive employment. The standards are compelling because they are designed to measure workers’ on-the-job performance, rather than a measurement of inputs or test-based performance.
Job search and placement services meet when participant workers are prepared for and matched with permanent employment opportunities.
Logic Models are useful tools to help ESEs write out their plan for impact and how to potentially measure it!
Having orientation and onboarding enables employment social enterprises to establish common ground and provide transparency around culture, policies, and expectations (both program- and business-related
This resource, will cover some common root causes and how to identify them within your social enterprise.
Participant worker feedback refers to the formal process of gathering and responding to feedback from social enterprise participant workers, with an emphasis on equity, ease of use for decision-making, review by leadership, and continuous improvement.