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 modelsto 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
6 minutes
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Employee Success Program |
Manage a Social Enterprise
Performance management is an ongoing process that helps build and maintain effective participant worker-supervisor relationships.
3 minutes
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Employee Success Program, Growth Planning |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
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
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Employee Success Program |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
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.
3 minutes
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Employee Success Program |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
In this deep dive, we cover one of the key components of an employee success program, retention policies.
8 minutes
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Employee Success Program |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
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.
Employee Success Program |
Manage a Social Enterprise, Start a Social Enterprise
This document provides employment social enterprises (ESEs) with a comprehensive set of standard operating procedures for running a highly effective Employee Success Program.
15 minutes
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Employee Success Program |
Manage a Social Enterprise
Read for more information on these important changes to SNAP and Medicaid, why REDF believes these changes are important for ESEs to be aware of, and additional tips on how to best support ESE workers.
5 minutes
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Employee Success Program, Financial Management, Raising Capital & Fundraising |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
It has become increasingly important that we be able to understand not simply that a program is a “good cause,” but rather that its social returns argue for increasing our investments in their work.
Employee Success Program |
Manage a Social Enterprise
This guide provides ESEs with a self-guided tour of existing frameworks and curriculums for job readiness training and to help jumpstart the implementation process with key background, resources, and considerations.
Employee Success Program, Leadership & Talent |
Grow a Social Enterprise, Manage a Social Enterprise
In this resource, we outline key lessons we’ve learned from the 130+ ESEs we’ve supported that serve people with justice system involvement.