This session introduces the 10 Keys to Supervisor Success, and explores how to evaluate culture, policies, and structures to ensure supervisors with lived expertise thrive.
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This interactive panel brought together ESE leaders with direct experience training supervisors and growing talent from the participant level. Panelists shared lessons on supporting participant employees as they transition into leadership, navigate career crossroads, and move within or beyond the enterprise.
The first 2-3 weeks of a new supervisor’s tenure are critical. This session provides a step-by-step guide for onboarding and training supervisors, integrating trauma-informed principles into reality.
The Supervisor Success Series Toolkit is a practical, adaptable training resource developed by REDF to help employment social enterprises (ESEs) onboard and develop new frontline supervisors.
The Employer Partner Quality Rubric helps ESEs evaluate potential and existing employer partners by providing clear standards across each stage of relationship development from Pre-Screening to Discovery Calls to Making the Case to Ongoing Cultivation.
REDF created the Employer Engagement Maturity Model – a tool designed to help organizations reflect on their current practices, identify opportunities for growth, and strengthen long-term strategies for building and sustaining employer relationships.
Dave Viotti from SMALLIFY, hosted an engaging session in which we learned about the strengths, preferences and growth areas in our communication styles and how to identify and adapt to the preferences of others to strengthen trust and relationships.
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.
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.
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.