• High Performance Organization Surveys help organizations assess how effectively they are performing in areas central to getting the highest possible results. Compared to standard attitude surveys, this survey enables leaders to do more focused action planning.
• High Performance Team Surveys provide team leaders and team members with detailed feedback on how they are performing on the characteristics of high performance teams. This behavior-based survey reveals what the team can do to maintain or improve its effectiveness.
• Climate Studies provide leaders with a thorough assessment of the culture, climate, strengths, and weaknesses of the organization in the words of its people. Professional interviews provide the basis for analysis and recommendations.
• High Performance Leader Surveys provide a comprehensive 360-degree assessment based on the Furr Resources model of what leaders of high performance organizations do.
• Other Feedback Instruments enable Furr Resources to use a broad spectrum of tools to heighten self-knowledge for professional development. The WorkPlace Big Five, NEO-PI-R, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, OPQ, FIRO-B, the Hogan Challenger Report, the Hogan Potential Report, CISS, and other personality and psychological indicators are available.

• Team Development Retreat is used to understand the effects of team actions on organizational outcomes and to create strategy and action plans for developing key teams.
• High Performance Team Development is an ongoing process of working with teams to enhance their direction, alignment, communication, decision-making, and other elements of high performance.
• Efficient processes for Defining the Culture and Competencies needed to support strategy and designing culture change approaches;
• Aligning Functions, Teams and Individual Leaders with changing strategies;
• Systematic Approaches for Retaining Talent and Customers;
• Support through combining cultures during Mergers and Acquisitions;
• Evolving the culture to support Rapid Growth and Increased Complexity;
• Heightening the organization’s Innovation Quotient or ability to “think out of the box” using Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking methods; and
• Facilitating high stakes management Meetings and Retreats.
• Performance Management Systems are management tools that enable you to link individual goals to the vision and strategy of the organization, thereby heightening accountability for individual performance. The system is customized to your culture and can be linked with compensation. Managers are trained to use the system administratively plus Furr conducts the soft skills training for giving feedback, coaching and effective performance appraisal to optimize the system’s effectiveness.

Leadership is not something you have or don't have; it is something you do or don't do. That is, leadership involves knowledge, skills, and emotional intelligence, which can be learned, developed, and refined to reach higher levels of effectiveness.

Effective leaders are powerful in part because they manage themselves emotionally better than those who are less effective. Their personal behavior and their skills enlist, engage, guide, and support others in accompanying important goals. Furr Resources helps leaders develop the emotional intelligence and skills required for higher performance.

• Leadership Awareness Workshop (LAW) is a two-day in-house program for mid-management or other high potential leaders. It offers extensive feedback through six inventories, including 360-degree feedback, and allows participants to learn more effective leadership actions through simulations and experiential processes. This workshop culminates in an individual leadership action plan and coaching session(s) for each participant with a Furr consultant.
• Leadership Impact Studies and Executive Coaching are two resources executives use to better understand and manage their effectiveness. The two-day Leadership Impact Study uses a skilled interviewer to gather rich, detailed feedback about an executive's leadership style from key superiors, direct reports, and peers and to develop a plan for enhanced effectiveness. Executive Coaching offers periodic, objective support through one-on-one coaching sessions with a Furr Resources’ professional.

• Six Thinking Hats® and Lateral Thinking® are two in-house workshops teaching the methods of Edward de Bono, one of the world's leading authorities in creativity. Participants learn practical methods, which they can use to challenge and broaden their thinking on demand, as the work situation requires.
• Signature Leadership Series® is Furr Resource's award-winning (American Society for Training and Development) comprehensive in-house program for developing executive leadership skills. Developed as five units, clients choose from one to 19 days of classroom facilitation over a course of twelve to sixteen months, customized to meet their performance issues. This exclusive program focuses on the skills executives need in strategic roles: shaping the leadership role to meet the demands of the future; focusing, developing, and aligning the organization; managing organizational change; building High Performance Teams; and becoming more effective in coaching, counseling, and developing others. (Signature includes both The Six Thinking Hats® and Lateral Thinking® workshops).