This toolkit provides an overview of the purpose of the intake process, best practices for implementation, and a sample intake form that the ESE can customize to best fit its focus population.
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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 purpose of this resource is to support ESEs through the process of designing and implementing a survey of participant employees that evaluates participants’ experience, perception, and engagement.
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.
Overall, job training supplements work experience to equip participant workers with the skills needed for long-term success in mainstream employment and life.
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.
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!
Partners are external organizations that have a formal relationship with an employment social enterprise because their work complements and supports that of the enterprise.
Performance management is an ongoing process that helps build and maintain effective participant worker-supervisor relationships.
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