8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
What does it mean to be people-centered and how can this approach enhance the employee experience? A simple vi...
How to Prioritize Projects in the Time of COVID
How to Prioritize Projects in the Time of COVID
Feeling overwhelmed as the coronavirus continues to upend even your best-laid work plans? Not sure where to fo...
Rethinking the Future of Working, Together
Rethinking the Future of Working, Together
Congratulations! You’ve made it through the first few months of quarantine. Now, as things start to open up ...
Design Thinking vs. Visual Thinking
Design Thinking vs. Visual Thinking
At XPLANE we pride ourselves on bringing clarity to complexity. We usually do this for clients, but sometimes ...
How to Plan a Thriving Future Workplace
How to Plan a Thriving Future Workplace
As we look to reopen workplaces in the coming weeks and months, many organizations will see today’s virtual ...
Make Your Zoom Meetings More Engaging with This Mighty Superskill
Make Your Zoom Meetings More Engaging with This Mighty Superskill
Updated August 26, 2021
It’s like clockwork. Three minutes into any phone conversation, my 90-year-old fath...
8 Tips for Leading Into the Unknown (When You’re Not in Charge)
8 Tips for Leading Into the Unknown (When You’re Not in Charge)
Feeling called (or getting a call) to be a leader at work but not sure you’re qualified? Don’t be afraid t...
Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
In times of crisis, a resilience plan can help your organization quickly pivot existing strategies and navigat...
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
We're all grappling with ways to make the remote experience more human, activate the senses, and create “aha...
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
With the advent of COVID-19, we’re all in the midst of sudden change right now, responding as quickly as we ...
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE's top 25 tried-and-true tips for making the most of remote meetings and collaboration....
How Experts Tap Into the Power of Visual Thinking
How Experts Tap Into the Power of Visual Thinking
Address complex organizational challenges and explore exciting new ways to create and communicate with the wor...
Into Thin Air: How Good Leaders Share Their Vision and Inspire Action
Into Thin Air: How Good Leaders Share Their Vision and Inspire Action
How business leaders can share their vision of the future and help workers move from their bustling world to t...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
Four tools to help you implement lasting change in your company culture without fearing revolt and chaos....
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Move your organization to the 20% that succeeds in implementing a strategy with these three powerful principle...
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Organizational structure is experiencing a radical change. Horizontal relationships are overtaking the hierarc...
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
As the number of remote workers continues to grow, team leaders and managers must find new ways to keep them f...
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
Explore powerful tools and resources designed to create organizational change, inspire ideas, and fuel transfo...
Two Fun Ways to Get Your Strategy Off the Ground (Part 2 of 2)
Two Fun Ways to Get Your Strategy Off the Ground (Part 2 of 2)
We share why so many strategies fail and how you can avoid strategy failure using a few tricks XPLANE has fine...
What Is Strategy? (Part 1 of 2)
What Is Strategy? (Part 1 of 2)
What does the word strategy mean to you? Here, we define what strategy is and what differentiates a good strat...
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
When you want to help employees better understand complex concepts and ideas, try drawing. Here's why....
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
If visual language is so universally and rapidly understood, why don’t we use it more often? Can this valuab...
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why do digital transformation efforts remain incredibly difficult to do successfully? Most don’t focus enoug...
XPLANE Expands to Spain and Latin America
XPLANE Expands to Spain and Latin America
Portland-based design consultancy XPLANE today announced that it is expanding its operations to Spain and Lati...