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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

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5 minutes | Employee Success Program | Manage a Social Enterprise

Participant Worker Job Training Overview

Overall, job training supplements work experience to equip participant workers with the skills needed for long-term success in mainstream employment and life.
8 minutes | Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Participant Worker Recruitment & Intake Overview

Recruitment and intake describes how a social enterprise markets its work, attracts new participant workers, gathers information from interested candidates, evaluates candidates for program enrollment and / or referral to partner organizations, and documents the process. 
10 minutes | Business Planning, Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Partner & Customer Evaluation Tool

We've created a tool to help you evaluate potential, and even current, partner and customers, based on what is important to YOUR organization. This makes it easier to pursue, release, and/or keep a partner or customer to help you increase your impact!
5 minutes | Employee Success Program | Manage a Social Enterprise

Partner Roles & Responsibilities Overview

Partners are external organizations that have a formal relationship with an employment social enterprise because their work complements and supports that of the enterprise.
3 minutes | Employee Success Program, Growth Planning | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Program Fidelity Overview

Program fidelity refers to how closely a social enterprise executes its employee success program relative to planned activities, as well as the consistency in which it delivers program services across all locations and aspects of the social enterprise
4 minutes | Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Retention Bonuses and Earnings Supplements

Retention bonuses and earnings supplements support the employee supports strategy of incentivizing success by rewarding employees for the long term retention of employment outside of the social enterprise.
8 minutes | Employee Success Program | Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise

Retention Services Overview

Retention services are provided to participant workers who have graduated from an employment social enterprise’s program and transitioned to unsupported employment, such as job placement in a competitive employer or advancement within the social enterprise.