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How to Bridge the Gap Between Strategic Planning and Execution for Lasting Change
How to Bridge the Gap Between Strategic Planning and Execution for Lasting Change
Is your meticulously crafted strategy falling flat during execution? Discover a powerful approach to making yo...
5 Foundational Storytelling Tips to Transform Your Presentations
5 Foundational Storytelling Tips to Transform Your Presentations
Ensure your message not only reaches but deeply engages your audience. Drive transformative change efficiently...
Trying to Lead Through Change? Tap into 5 Storytelling Secrets to Improve Your Presentations
Trying to Lead Through Change? Tap into 5 Storytelling Secrets to Improve Your Presentations
For leaders aiming to make a memorable mark, unlock the power of storytelling techniques in your presentations...
Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
In the push for meaningful metrics, an abundance of data can overwhelm even the most statistics-savvy professi...
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
Data storytelling is a powerful tool in driving transformational change, and one of the most difficult to mast...
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...
Transform Your Meeting Culture: Strategies and Tools for Engaging and Productive Sessions
Transform Your Meeting Culture: Strategies and Tools for Engaging and Productive Sessions
Revolutionize your meetings. Turn frustration into productivity using a strategic approach and powerful tools....
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...
Six Signs You Need a Consulting Partner to Help Activate Your Strategy
Six Signs You Need a Consulting Partner to Help Activate Your Strategy
Organizations spend about $160 billion a year on developing new strategy, yet research shows about 80% of thos...
Three Critical Principles for Accelerating Change
Three Critical Principles for Accelerating Change
With the strategic expertise of a traditional consulting firm and the creative power and process of a ...
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...
How XPLANE’s Sprint-Based Approach Accelerates Organizational Change
How XPLANE’s Sprint-Based Approach Accelerates Organizational Change
Accelerating positive change for organizations, their people, and the world is a team effort. When clients and...
How XPLANE’s Approach Yields Outsized Change Transformation Results
How XPLANE’s Approach Yields Outsized Change Transformation Results
Where do you start when you need to lead organizational change? As experts in the field of organizational tran...
How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
In today’s dynamic world, an effective strategy must keep pace with change. Here’s how you can create all-...
7 Essential Tools to Help You Successfully Implement Change
7 Essential Tools to Help You Successfully Implement Change
Among change leaders, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that 80% of major corporate strategies fail. But...
How to Engage People and Bring Your Strategy to Life
How to Engage People and Bring Your Strategy to Life
Moving strategy from planning to implementation can feel like going into overtime with nothing in reserve. But...
Rethinking Customer Centricity in the Post-Pandemic Era
Rethinking Customer Centricity in the Post-Pandemic Era
The world has shifted in the past few years, and organizations that wish to remain vital now more than ever mu...
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...
7 Best Practices to Successfully Lead Organizational Change
7 Best Practices to Successfully Lead Organizational Change
When you’re leading change in an organization, a lot can ride on your game plan. Take the guesswork out of b...
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...
3 Powerful Worksheets to Help Your Company Be More Customer-Centric
3 Powerful Worksheets to Help Your Company Be More Customer-Centric
Feeling a little out of step with your customers at this stage of the pandemic? Hit your stride again with the...