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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...
Turn Your Thinking Inside Out: The Path to More Effective Communication and Collaboration
Turn Your Thinking Inside Out: The Path to More Effective Communication and Collaboration
If you’ve ever drawn a picture to explain what you’re talking about, used sticky notes to brainstorm ideas...
The Power of Working With a Design Consultancy
The Power of Working With a Design Consultancy
How would you define “design consultancy”? If you’re like XPLANE designer Catie Cooper, you might be a l...
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...
A Card Game to Identify Reasons People Resist Change
A Card Game to Identify Reasons People Resist Change
In 25+ years of leading organizations through change, XPLANE has encountered more than 35 distinct barriers to...
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...
A Card Game to Uncover the Issues of Growth, Crisis, or Change
A Card Game to Uncover the Issues of Growth, Crisis, or Change
Faced with a torrent of high-priority needs jostling for your attention? Calm the sea of demands with a card g...
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...
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
While domestic companies spend a staggering $100 billion per year on corporate training, only one in four busi...
3 Tips for Better Facilitation
3 Tips for Better Facilitation
The modest superhero of any meeting, the humble facilitator wields great power—helping groups deal with diff...
How to Design a Strategy Execution Plan
How to Design a Strategy Execution Plan
Q: I’ve invested a lot of time and resources to create an exciting new strategy for my organization. How do ...
Understand Employees and Move Critical Initiatives Forward With This One Tool
Understand Employees and Move Critical Initiatives Forward With This One Tool
No matter how intuitive and in touch you are as a leader, there will inevitably be times employee insights are...
The Unexpected Magic of Virtual Offsites
The Unexpected Magic of Virtual Offsites
Needing to tackle a mission-critical strategy, visioning, or team-building initiative but can’t swing an in-...
Five Steps to Resilient Strategic Planning
Five Steps to Resilient Strategic Planning
Feeling worn down from constantly adapting your plans to rapidly changing conditions these days? You're not al...
Three Ways to Banish Initiative Fatigue and Lead Change
Three Ways to Banish Initiative Fatigue and Lead Change
Feeling like you just can’t get a new idea off the ground or are talking in circles about a great new initia...
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...