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The workforce is more diverse than it has ever been and people are at the center of your organization's success. Traditional change management was designed for organizations of the past, not our more inclusive, purpose-driven organizations of today.

As a leader, you need to begin building new people-centered approaches to attract and retain talent today.

Below are tools and resources you can use immediately to get in touch with what's top of mind for your employees and guide organizational change in a people-centered way.

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Improving Employee Experience Made ACT I A Magnet For Top Talent

Going head-to-head for talent against heavy hitters such as Amazon, Advanced Concepts and Technology International (ACT I) sought to level up employee satisfaction to attract and retain top talent in all its markets.

Knowing they’d need to deeply engage employees to reach their goals, ACT I called on engagement and activation experts XPLANE to facilitate an all-hands-on-deck culture shift.

Relying on unwavering leadership support, co-creation, and people-centered design, XPLANE’s team worked with ACT I’s employees to identify and design solutions for objectives most critical to ACT I’s people. Within just one year, ACT I achieved improvements in every targeted area. They saw a 25% reduction in their “retention at risk” employees, 22% increase in employees’ sense of “special and unique benefits”, and 12% increase in “employee trust in management.”

Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want Blog

Do you have an awesome company culture, but you’re worried about losing the magic as you grow? Get the culture you want by getting clear on what it looks like.

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Empathy Map Worksheet

Discover what drives employees, uncover why they function the way they are, and quickly capture their perspectives.Ensure change is designed in a people-centered way and gain valuable organizational insights with our Empathy Map worksheet.
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On-Demand Webinar: How to Transform Your Employee Experience in Five Steps

If you want to attract and retain top talent, it’s time to level up your organization’s employee experience. In this on-demand webinar, we share our five-step approach for creating a workplace with happy employees who want to stick around.

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This people-centered diagnostic tool helps you explore the top 37 reasons why people resist change—and how overcoming these barriers can lead to lasting change.

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XPLANE’s Discovery Cards are an engaging approach to examine an organization and its culture. Through game play, this card sort helps teams uncover individual and shared insights, enabling fast alignment, and productive dialogue.

More tools to help in your change initiative

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To succeed at change within the modern organization, we need to shift from a process-driven, mechanistic model to a more human-centered approach that appeals to the wants and needs of individuals. Here’s why.
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Diagnose and visualize employees’ current experiences and identify critical “touchpoints” or friction points to mitigate with our Employee Experience Journey Map Worksheet.
What does it mean to be people-centered and how can this approach enhance the employee experience? A simple visual tool called the Employee Experience Journey Map can help you discover how to motivate teams and inspire an employee experience revolution!
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When you need to facilitate a conversation with your team around how you want to work and what you expect from one another, use this worksheet to launch those conversations.
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On-Demand Webinar: Leadership Tools and Techniques for Navigating the Hybrid Workplace

With organizations adopting a “work-from-anywhere” (“WFA”) model, hybrid teams are becoming the new normal. How does the WFA model change communication and collaboration needs? And what tools and best practices should you be leveraging?

In this on-demand webinar, learn how virtual collaboration tools help unify hybrid teams, plus tips to attain the right balance of synchronous and asynchronous communication and collaboration.

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On-Demand Webinar: How to Overcome Divisive Behaviors

Divisive behaviors—posturing, gossiping, backchannel conversations—cause a host of organizational headaches such as apathy, low morale, and low productivity. But there are ways to address these behaviors and breathe new life into your organization.

In this on-demand webinar, learn how to make small changes from the bottom up to combat divisiveness, work across silos and geographies to drive cultural transformation, and experience two useful frameworks that help address division in teams and organizations.