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With Increased Team Diversity, Establishing Your Ways of Working is More Critical than Ever
With Increased Team Diversity, Establishing Your Ways of Working is More Critical than Ever
There is no secret recipe for high-performing teams, but establishing agreements and norms for how you work to...
Five Surefire Signs You Need an Outside Facilitator Now
Five Surefire Signs You Need an Outside Facilitator Now
How do you know when you need to hire a consulting firm? And how can you guarantee that the investment will pa...
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE as a consulting partner? Guidance on how a design thinking consulting fir...
If You Can Teach Your Team One Skill, Let it Be This.
If You Can Teach Your Team One Skill, Let it Be This.
Giving and receiving feedback is paramount to building a high performing team. Yet, it’s a skill we often do...
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
How three days of company-wide training broke down silos and transformed our company culture....
Dear Exec Team: Truly Engage Your Employees by Going Beyond the Chart
Dear Exec Team: Truly Engage Your Employees by Going Beyond the Chart
An interview with XPLANE founder Dave Gray on why and how visuals drive business results and create better com...
Visual Thinking Bootcamps – Who Should Attend? What Skills Will You Learn?
Visual Thinking Bootcamps – Who Should Attend? What Skills Will You Learn?
Whether you're a professional who wants to add visual techniques to your arsenal of communication tools, or a ...
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Many traditional organizations are now driving away both potential employees and new business by not putting t...
XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
Awards are more than a plaque for the wall or a shiny new trophy, it’s validation directly from our own empl...
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Don’t Wait for Disruption! An Interview with Business Innovation Factory's Saul Kaplan on business model des...
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
Companies need adapt and organize in a radically different way to lead in the future. Organizations need to fo...
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
Is there a way to get everyone in your company to act like owners? Yes, but not without changing the structure...
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
CEO Aric Wood announces that XPLANE just became a Certified B Corporation!...
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
If you want to make a large change in your business strategy or company culture, it’s vital that your employ...
Exploring New Worlds with PNCA: Using Design Frameworks to Map Out Stranger Things and the Future of National Parks
Exploring New Worlds with PNCA: Using Design Frameworks to Map Out Stranger Things and the Future of National Parks
We believe visuals bring clarity to strategies inside of organizations. We worked with PNCA to use this thinki...
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Consultant Nina Narelle was interviewed for a short piece in Work magazine. In today's complex business enviro...
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking - Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast...
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon...
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture with the activation curve, culture map, and empathy map fro...
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
Five reasons why it’s time to normalize the work doodle and start communicating with your employees using vi...
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
What makes a team effective? Why do some teams make one another stronger while others tear each other down? Ca...
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
For our third night of our Pop-Up XPLANE adventure in Detroit, we hosted a panel of brainiacs at DC3 to d...
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
We recently asked the XPLANE studio: What books most shape the way you work?...
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
This fall we officially launched BAT, XPLANE’s Betterment Action Team. BAT’s cross-functional team...