SOLUTIONS FOR NONprofits
A Lot is Riding on How Your Nonprofit Functions
The success of your mission, the trust of your stakeholders, and your impact in the world all depend on the unity and skill of your leadership team and staff.
Even with strong faith, dedication, and a clear calling, faith-based nonprofits often face challenges in developing and sustaining healthy, high-performing staff.
VOCA Center delivers a range of biblically-centered solutions designed to align your team and enhance your leaders’ skills. Our interactive programs are proven to:​
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Boost productivity
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Build confidence​
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Address underperformance
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Improve communication​
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Facilitate more effective meetings​
Leverage VOCA’s solutions to strengthen your organization for greater mission impact.
FOR YOUR SENIOR LEADERS
Grow your leadership through personalized, confidential, and professional coaching. All of us need a trusted confidant and source of wisdom outside the ecosystem of our organizations. Utilizing highly experienced, certified coaches who share your faith, VOCA's Executive Coaching brings you clarity and confidence as you move forward in your leadership role.​
Pastoral & Leadership Coaching
If you don't know where you're going or how to get there, your ministry sits idle. VOCA experts offer strategic coaching for those in charge of the strategic plan to see your church or organization grow and mission come to life.
HiPo Low EQ
High performers, low emotional intelligence: Even in the world of ministry, high performers who lack the kinder manifestations of Christian character, can rise to the top and make work miserable for their reports. VOCA has a proven process for working with you to increase the emotional intelligence of your high performers and decrease the collateral damage they inflict on your team and reputation.
Sabbatical Planning
Sabbath rest is a biblical gift. Sabbath is an opportunity for your team to reflect on the work they do and give glory to God, but Sabbaticals require careful planning. VOCA offers a structure that can help you make the best of your sabbatical and aligns with the work/life cycle as God intended.
Succession Planning
You want a ministry that lasts far after you're gone. VOCA helps you develop a two-year cycle that will help you plan for the future and prepare your next generation. We will give you the tools for effective succession planning and intentionally grooming the young leaders on your team.
FOR YOUR STAFF
Your people are your greatest asset, deepest joy, largest expense, and most draining challenge. At VOCA, we see your relationship with talent as a lifecycle, bringing strategic checkpoints of investment for building stable, high-performing teams. We are honored to deliver people solutions through the whole cycle so you can steward well the people God has called to work with you.
FIND
JobFit Analysis
80% of management challenges begin in the hiring process. Bring objective data to your job design and candidate assessment process. VOCA provides an extra level of confidence for the hiring managers in your firm.
Onboarding Coaching
Move new hires from costing money to making money with targeted onboarding coaching from VOCA. With an emphasis on executive presence, strategic listening, and focused contribution, our coaches help your new hires quickly become key players.
Trusted Search Professionals
You need trusted partners in the search world to produce a slate of qualified candidates for your openings. VOCA provides introductions so you get the service you need to grow your team.
DEVELOP
Team Optimization
You've got the right people in the room, now get them pulling in the right direction with a VOCA Team Engagement. Using our proprietary 3-pillar framework we deliver a blend of personal assessment, group exercises, and coaching to build productivity-boosting connections in your workgroup.
HiPo Individual Development
Win the talent game by attracting and keeping high potentials. We empower you to identify the best candidates and coordinate with other managers. Bring our transformative multi-disciplinary approach to your development.
HiPer-LowEQ
High Performing-Low Emotional Intelligence: Do you have a colleague with a HiPer-Low EQ problem? These are teammates whose productivity justifies keeping them around, yet their leadership wake disrupts the company culture and creates more work for others. Using data and feedback, we aim to detox your most toxic high performers.
Customized Training
Most training is prepackaged and does not result in lasting change. It costs too much, burns time, and doesn't solve the problem. Share your people-development goals and let us create a bespoke training program to achieve lasting behavioral results.
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TRANSITION
Outplacement
When employees leave, there is a lot at stake—your insurance bill, your workplace brand, and even your peace of mind. Our proven career navigation framework provides outplacement options so you can rest easy and focus on the future.
Succession Planning
One of your most important talent management tasks is handing off the future to the right person. Using objective data, interviews, and coaching, we create a successful road map for you and your team.
Build Your Business Plan
FOR YOUR VISION
Strategic advisory solutions: VOCA's strategic advisory consulting empowers you to build and execute a plan that brings momentum-building focus to your ministry. VOCA leverages professional depth and faith-based principles to connect organizational growth with your spiritual roots so you can steward the resources God has given and advance the Kingdom for his glory.
How do you capture everything you are doing and plan to do in a compelling package? VOCA’s business plan consulting enables you to present a compelling case for where you’re going. A well-crafted business plan enables you to build internal momentum and make a compelling case for external funding.
Tune-Up Your Governance Board
Board work is often disappointing for both members and staff. VOCA brings a proven model for clarifying roles and working constructively together. A governance consultation is your path to the alignment you need between your Board and Senior Leadership.
Deploy GCOS
How do you create a culture that can respond to adversity and opportunity with grit and creativity? VOCA’s Three-Pillar Framework brings your team a model for assessing and growing the kind of working habits that produce consistent victories over time.
The VOCA Distinctives
FAITH BAKED IN
Our team of Christ-followers weave Kingdom principles and disciplines to anchor leadership transformation in the way of Jesus.
FACTS ARE OUR FRIENDS
We use data to replace opinion and conjecture with facts, driving development goals and outcomes.
BUILT BY THE COACH APPROACH
We lead with listening. We tailor each solution to meet your specific objectives and outcomes.
ITERATIVE LEARNING
We leverage learning cycles to produce the kind of results that justify the investment.
REAL-WORLD TESTED
Every framework we use is proven in the real world of ministry and business.
THE BEST TEAM ON THE FIELD
Most of our training engagements will include at least two consultants to keep the energy and interest flowing.
MULTIMODAL LEARNING
Robust and innovative interaction with powerful concepts drives lasting change.
AN EYE ON ROI
Even as a church, you need to think about return on investment for the funds you invest in leadership and team growth. We embrace the need for development initiatives to justify the investment and help our clients do the math.