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.
VOCA Offers Effective and Discrete Solutions to NONPROFITS:
FOR YOUR SENIOR LEADERS
Grow your leadership through personalized, confidential, 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.
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Pastoral & Leadership Coaching:
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HiPo LOW EQ (High performers, low emotional intelligence)
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Sabbatical Planning
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Succession Planning
FOR YOUR SENIOR LEADERS
Grow your leadership through personalized, confidential, 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.
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PASTORAL & LEADERSHIP COACHING
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS
Assessments are an important part of creating a strategy that will work. VOCA intentionally uses the right assessment at the right time. We will identify if the assessments should be used as a baseline or diagnostic tool, and our experts are trained to communicate the results with clarity.
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.
Senior Pastors
Engagements focused on maximizing influence, deepening soft skills, managing stakeholder expectations, and maintaining long-term resilience.
Church Staffs
Delivering training experiences that deepen trust, widen joy, and empower a staff team to lean on the strengths of each member.
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Church Boards
Advising boards on structure, culture, staff supervisor functions, and hiring decisions.
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Transitioning Pastors
Working with pastors and boards to implement healthy, momentum-producing pastoral transitions including internal advisory services and vocational coaching for exiting staff.
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.
BUILT BY THE COACH APPROACH
We lead with listening. We tailor each solution to meet your specific objectives and outcomes.
REAL-WORLD TESTED
Every framework we use is proven in the real world of ministry and business.
MULTIMODAL LEARNING
Robust and innovative interaction with powerful concepts drives lasting change.
FACTS ARE OUR FRIENDS
We use data to replace opinion and conjecture with facts, driving development goals and outcomes.
ITERATIVE LEARNING
We leverage learning cycles to produce the kind of results that justify the investment.
THE BEST TEAM ON THE FIELD
Most of our training engagements will include at least two consultants to keep the energy and interest flowing.
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.
Case Study: An Interim Pastor’s Path to Succession Success
“Just taking one hour every few weeks to have someone listen and ask penetrating questions helped to clarify my feelings, clarify my thinking, and allowed me to think outside the box.
For any church or church leader considering working with VOCA, make it happen. Hopefully, your church will make an investment in you. It’s worth it, and don’t wait. Dive in—I wish that I had done this earlier in ministry and more often.”
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—Tracy Troxel, Senior Pastor, Stone Hill Church of Princeton