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From Surviving to Thriving: A Human Approach to Unleashing Potential
From Surviving to Thriving: A Human Approach to Unleashing Potential
Transform your workplace from one of mere survival to one where employees thrive. Discover actionable steps to...
To Improve Employee Retention, Re-Examine Your Employee Experience
To Improve Employee Retention, Re-Examine Your Employee Experience
Your employee experience means everything. Reinvent the experience to create a more desirable, productive work...
5 Ways Leaders Can Adopt a Growth Mindset
5 Ways Leaders Can Adopt a Growth Mindset
Want to become a more resilient, adaptable, effective leader? Nurture a growth mindset! Here are five tips to ...
Get Outcomes Faster: 6 Ways to Quickly and Effectively Engage Stakeholders
Get Outcomes Faster: 6 Ways to Quickly and Effectively Engage Stakeholders
Want to achieve clarity, alignment, and yes — even enthusiasm! — around your vision, strategy, or change e...
How Using Gamification Moves Organizational Goals Forward
How Using Gamification Moves Organizational Goals Forward
Engaging and interactive, games have the power to bust through barriers and open the door to organizational ch...
To Stay Ahead of the Competition, Bolster Your Company Culture
To Stay Ahead of the Competition, Bolster Your Company Culture
Culture has been called an organization’s most powerful advantage, but culture change is often sidelined for...
3 Reasons Facilitation Will Be Your Competitive Advantage in 2023
3 Reasons Facilitation Will Be Your Competitive Advantage in 2023
From enhancing collaboration to amping up productivity, skilled facilitation can make all the difference in ho...
How To Create a Kinder, More Inclusive Work Environment
How To Create a Kinder, More Inclusive Work Environment
In any organization, cultivating high-quality interactions can improve productivity, speed, and innovation.1 H...
Tips to Get Started on Your Company’s Culture Transformation
Tips to Get Started on Your Company’s Culture Transformation
Has your company migrated toward more remote and hybrid work since the pandemic? If so, you might want to take...
Seven Steps to Creating a Story That Connects With Your Audience
Seven Steps to Creating a Story That Connects With Your Audience
We’ve all sat through ho-hum presentations full of boring data and far too many slides. How can we turn a ...
Virtual Whiteboards: A Powerful Way to Enhance Collaboration
Virtual Whiteboards: A Powerful Way to Enhance Collaboration
Interested in virtual collaboration using digital whiteboards but feeling overwhelmed by needing to integrate ...
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Developed in a bygone era, traditional business models—such as change management—are trailing the era in w...
Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want
Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want
This blog post was last updated on February 6, 2024. Can you define how your culture drives your success? Do y...
Seven Principles and Five Steps to Confidently Lead Organizational Change
Seven Principles and Five Steps to Confidently Lead Organizational Change
In today’s world of unrelenting change, organizations and leaders that will thrive are those mindfully build...
Visuals: An Educator’s Key to Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement
Visuals: An Educator’s Key to Enhancing Student Learning and Engagement
This blog post is a summary of our webinar Engage Your Learners: Using Visuals to Enhance Learning and Educat...
Master the Art of Creating Rich, Rewarding Online Learning Experiences
Master the Art of Creating Rich, Rewarding Online Learning Experiences
Authors: Tim May, Creative Director, and Nancy Sewell, Senior Program Manager This post is a summary of our we...
A Powerful Way to Get Traction on Your DE&I Initiative
A Powerful Way to Get Traction on Your DE&I Initiative
At XPLANE, we aren’t experts in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), but we can help organizations v...
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategies that are launched with a complex presentation and “cascaded” down the ranks are bound to fail. ...
Culture and Collaboration in the Post-COVID Workplace
Culture and Collaboration in the Post-COVID Workplace
This interview was conducted by Chuck Frey and was originally published in the NEXT/EDGE newsletter. Cultivate...
Tips and Tools for Great Hybrid Workplace Communication and Collaboration
Tips and Tools for Great Hybrid Workplace Communication and Collaboration
As hybrid teams become the new normal, what's the secret (or key) to nurturing robust communication and collab...
How to Foster Trust on Remote Teams
How to Foster Trust on Remote Teams
How much do you trust your coworkers? According to experts, our prolonged run of predominantly remote work is ...
Make Your Workplace a Magnet for Top Talent
Make Your Workplace a Magnet for Top Talent
If you want to attract and retain top talent, it might be time to level up your organization’s employee expe...
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
When it comes to change, does your organization have a fairly good grip on things or does it feel more like yo...
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
As talent pools evaporate and employees leave jobs in droves for greener pastures each year, employers are kee...