Consultation Services

For you, your team, and your mission.

 

Executive Coaching | Assistance with managing difficult people, personnel conflicts, self-evaluation, emotional intelligence, personal skills improvement, changing perspectives, inspiring one’s self and the organization, and more.

Strategic Planning | Processing through how to develop and articulate a mission or vision statement, core values, objectives, goals, KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), and more.

Team Evaluations | Applying the 80/20 principle in position descriptions, how to provide proper feedback, language and term choices, how to craft evaluations that are “missionally” directed, and inspire team members toward greater commitment and effectiveness.

Overcoming Dysfunction | Training on “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” leadership principles and practices, mentoring others, etc. Maximize the health of your cultural dynamics for greater results.

Conflict & Change Management | Achieving solutions that retain employees, protect the core culture of the institution and grow the organization’s resilience.

People Systems Audit | Align your human systems (hiring, firing, HR) with your objectives to attract and develop your best people. (And to avoid hiring the wrong people).

And more…

 

Virtual Whiteboard Sessions

Convenient, online, for individuals or teams.

 

Exploratory | Perfect for considering if working together is a good fit.

Concise | Best for a narrow objective that can be navigated through considering differing perspectives and creative ideas.

Refreshers | Excellent to recontextualize known principles in new circumstances or challenges.

 

The Not-For-Profit Sector

Non-profit organizations have unique organizational challenges that often make leading and managing more difficult and thus lead to greater complications and potentially higher levels of inefficiency and dysfunction. Not surprisingly, the key challenge is to be absolutely clear on the core mission, vision, and values and applying them to the decisions and behaviors of your work.

 

“Mission-driven” | The “mission” of a non-profit institution is “aspirational” and “convictional.” In other words, it is not primarily a “material” mission. However, all organizations live as material institutions that seek to accomplish material outputs. We can help you synthesize and navigate a core conviction and an institutional mission so that all constituents are clear on what your purpose, your goals, and how to behave accordingly.

Constrained Resources | When financial ROI (return on investment) is not the main objective, money can frequently be lacking. How to raise funds and manage funds requires a completely different set of fiduciary philosophies and principles.

Accountability And Kindness | Some of the most problematic confusions exist when organizational accountability is necessary, but personnel appeal to the expectation of “kindness” and “compassion” that is often core to a benevolent institution. Recognizing the differences and distinctions will help maintain the fidelity of both, the compassionate care of the individual and the commitment to institutional integrity.

Religious Institutions | The Via Leadership Center has unique training and experience in both theology and the behavioral sciences. Understanding the dynamics between those two disciplines is one of the most challenging complications for spiritual communities. Not all “business” practices are appropriate according to one’s religious convictions. Not all “theologies” make for good organizational integrity.

And more…