How to Enhance Your Facilitation Skills Using Visual Communication Tools
How to Enhance Your Facilitation Skills Using Visual Communication Tools
Do you want to be a more creative leader? A more effective facilitator? It may be time to try visual thinking�...
How to Draw Your Idea and Move People to Action: An Exercise in Visual Communication
How to Draw Your Idea and Move People to Action: An Exercise in Visual Communication
Want to help people understand and move ideas to action quickly? It may be time to try your hand at drawing yo...
The Key to More Effective One-on-Ones? Visuals!
The Key to More Effective One-on-Ones? Visuals!
One-on-ones are a building block of strong organizations, yet too often these critical meetings fall short of ...
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...
Three Gangbuster Visual Icebreakers
Three Gangbuster Visual Icebreakers
Updated: September 27, 2021. This article was originally published on January 21, 2015. Our discovery ses...
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...
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...
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 ...
Make Your Virtual Meetings More Engaging with This Mighty Superskill
Make Your Virtual 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...
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...
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...
What Is Visual Thinking?
What Is Visual Thinking?
Visual Thinking is a methodology that uses tools to externalize internal thinking processes, making them more ...
Three Tools to More Effectively Collaborate Across Your Organization
Three Tools to More Effectively Collaborate Across Your Organization
Organizations increasingly face the challenge of initiatives such as customer experience, user experience, and...
How to Play PowerPoint Ping-Pong
How to Play PowerPoint Ping-Pong
Visual thinking involves people at every level in thinking through the strategy and its impacts. It's a proces...
Kindergarten Boardroom
Kindergarten Boardroom
The power of Visual Thinking. Even five year old kids are easily engaged, enabled, paid attention with respect...
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
An interview with XPLANE client partner and Portland State University thought leader Sukhwant Jhaj about using...
Confusion is Expensive: Find Clarity and Drive Success with Visual Thinking
Confusion is Expensive: Find Clarity and Drive Success with Visual Thinking
Organizational confusion happens when you lose track of what, why, & how you work together. Visual Thinking he...
XPLANE’s Visual Thinking Workshop: A Candid Review
XPLANE’s Visual Thinking Workshop: A Candid Review
Read Annie Pomeranz's review of XPLANE's Visual Thinking Trainings....
Millennial Management is a Two-Way Street
Millennial Management is a Two-Way Street
Are you ready to move beyond generational biases in the workplace? We partnered with AmCham NL to visualize a ...
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 ...
How Does a Diverse Community Come Together to Create a Single Vision of the Future?
How Does a Diverse Community Come Together to Create a Single Vision of the Future?
How our client used visual thinking & co-creation to successfully design, implement, and activate their strate...
The Knowing Doing Gap
The Knowing Doing Gap
Large organizations have access to more of this data than anyone else, but struggle to turn that info into an ...
The Smartest Person in the Room
The Smartest Person in the Room
How can we truly collaborate, learn from each other, and get aligned in a meeting? The key is involvement....
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...
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...
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Did you read that article in The New Yorker about how the big Portland earthquake will destroy our beloved Pac...
How I Discovered Visual Thinking
How I Discovered Visual Thinking
I vowed to make this co-creation a regular part of my learning process, and in doing so I soon learned that I ...
VTS: Captain’s Lunch, Engage!
VTS: Captain’s Lunch, Engage!
Captain’s Blog, star date -307557.1
On Thursday, June 11, Spaces Herengracht asked XPLANE to kick...
XPLANE Doodling 101
XPLANE Doodling 101
Whether in a seminar with a team of clients or in an internal meeting with a consultant, the XPLANE designers ...
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Anyone can make a pitch to change the world in which they live. Start with empathy. Draw the story. Pick a car...
Voices From VTS
Voices From VTS
I've known about XPLANE for several years, and long been interested in the models they work with in their cons...
XPLANE Helps ICANN Envision It’s Long-Range Strategy Plan
XPLANE Helps ICANN Envision It’s Long-Range Strategy Plan
XPLANE is proud to see the conclusion of our work helping ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names a...
Creative Briefs as Storytelling
Creative Briefs as Storytelling
Generally speaking, art students don’t consider themselves writers. In fact, many will tell you art scho...