Services
Mission-driven organizations hold up our communities, and Rhetorica Consulting knows how far you have to stretch your budget. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Reach out to us for a conversation about a customized service package.
Strategy
Our expertise, sense of energy, and playfulness can help your team access their creativity during brainstorming and vet ideas to produce impactful, attainable strategies.
Leaders face the challenge of sustaining a consistent and impactful mission, developing an organizational strategy, and planning discrete and achievable steps to accomplish it.
Meaningful strategy sessions need leaders to effectively challenge one another, clear and healthy discussion to come to alignment, and sometimes comic relief to cut the tension.
Strategic planning is often undertaken every 1-3 years, with periodic touchpoints to share updates on progress and make adjustments to priorities as needed.
Strategy services include:
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Fully facilitated strategic planning retreats
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Advising
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Strategic planning workshops
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Progress tracking and accountability check-ins for strategic plans
Pricing starts at $2,499
Research
Research services include:
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Community needs assessments
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Qualitative and quantitative analysis
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Well-documented community impact reports to share with your funders and stakeholders
Pricing starts at $4,749
With two decades of experience in academic research, qualitative field work, and nonprofit organizations, we combine proven structure and rigorous research practices with hands-on experience and insights from across multiple sectors.
Too often, mission-driven organizations must choose between staffing operations or internal research infrastructure. Leaders face real and justifiable pressure to prioritize critical program staff.
At the same time, research is critical as it enables you (and your supporters) to understand and assess the community’s needs and organization’s impact so that leadership teams can make informed, confident decisions that keep the mission aligned with the day-to-day activities.
We help fill that need, providing research services on an as-needed basis so that you can reach your goals while maintaining a budget.
Facilitation
Galvanizing. Delightful. Professional. Whimsical. Dedicated. Passionate. Flexible. These are a few of the ways clients have described our facilitation approach. After hundreds of events, we've learned the essentials of facilitation. It's part organization, part party planning, but most importantly, it's listening first and throughout the entire gathering.
Gatherings have enormous potential to shape the direction and momentum of a team.
By establishing practices of deliberate planning, clear pre-meeting communication, effective moderation, and reliable follow-up, nonprofits and mission-driven organizations can maximize the value they get from meeting time.
Positive meeting culture also emanates throughout an organization and typically engenders more productive communication, collaboration, and accountability—creating not only team success but a strong employee experience.
Facilitation services include:
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Annual board and staff retreats
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Gatherings with multiple stakeholders or community groups
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Focus groups
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Change management
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Project management
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Merger support
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Succession planning & leadership transitions
Pricing starts at $999
Communication
Communication services include:
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Coaching for newly promoted leaders
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Communication workshops for board and staff meetings
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Grant writing and editing
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Training and presentations
Pricing starts at $749
We communicate every day—and not to brag, but we’re great at it. All jesting aside, we are passionate about it! We combine what we’ve learned through a PhD in Communication, neuropsychology-informed reading, and daily practice to help you craft communication that meets your objectives.
Mission-driven organizations communicate with incredibly diverse audiences: the communities they serve, donors and supporters, internal teams, government organizations and legislatures, and more.
The objective and audience of each message varies, and taking time to tailor the message increases the likelihood of achieving your desired result.
Investing time and training in strong communicators yields a stronger, more successful organization.
In our fast-paced world, teams may not have time to communicate as much as they would like to, but even when you aren’t communicating, you’re communicating.
We can help you take charge of what you say and how you say it by providing training, coaching, development and delivery, and more.
Policies & Documentation
Creating and managing documentation shouldn't take you away from vital daily operations. Our attention to detail combined with big-picture perspective lets us take care of the documents and set you up with a plan to actually make them useful.
Our understanding of regulations and requirements, core tenets of successful governance and documentation, and ability to tease out institutional knowledge and goals enables us to take on the burden of creating custom-made documents for your organization.
Documentation serves as a key control in aligning internal policies with external requirements, providing team members with guidance to execute processes consistently, and supporting business continuity.
It also gives teams an important opportunity to understand and challenge documented decisions and plans, fostering continual, iterative improvement.
Policy & documentation services include:
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Maturity assessment, enhancement & development of:
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Policies, programs, frameworks, and standards
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Board and committee charters
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Procedures
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Customized job aids and templates
Pricing starts at $949