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TiER1 Impact Expands Globally with XPLANE Acquisition
TiER1 Impact Expands Globally with XPLANE Acquisition
Portland, OR – August 17, 2022—TiER1 Impact has announced the acquisition of XPLANE, a global design consu...
Five Steps to Build a More Agile Change Management Strategy
Five Steps to Build a More Agile Change Management Strategy
If a change management strategy is to be effective, agility is critical. Surprisingly, many change management ...
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...
The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept
The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept
Struggling with outdated change management approaches? You’re not alone! Traditional change management was d...
Seven Steps to Creating a Story That Connects With Your Audience
Seven Steps to Creating a Story That Connects With Your Audience
We’ve all sat through ho-hum presentations full of boring data and far too many slides. How can we turn a ...
Three Keys to Designing a More Effective Meeting
Three Keys to Designing a More Effective Meeting
Frustrated that your meetings fall flat or fail to achieve your objectives? Take heart. With thoughtful prepar...
Virtual Whiteboards: A Powerful Way to Enhance Collaboration
Virtual Whiteboards: A Powerful Way to Enhance Collaboration
Interested in virtual collaboration using digital whiteboards but feeling overwhelmed by needing to integrate ...
Put People at the Center of Your Next Change Initiative
Put People at the Center of Your Next Change Initiative
Making change happen is a monumental task. How do you move people from passively hearing about a change to act...
Five Skills Trained Facilitators Wield to Create Highly Effective Meetings
Five Skills Trained Facilitators Wield to Create Highly Effective Meetings
They help teams meet tough objectives. They facilitate engaging, powerful conversations. They move discussions...
Why Your “Process Problem” Probably Isn’t a Process Problem
Why Your “Process Problem” Probably Isn’t a Process Problem
Plagued by what seems like a stubborn process problem in your organization? You may be surprised to learn the ...
What is “Strategy Activation”?
What is “Strategy Activation”?
Struggling to get your strategy off the ground? Don’t overlook strategy activation! This nuanced step betwee...
Eight Tips for Leading Game-Changing Hybrid Meetings
Eight Tips for Leading Game-Changing Hybrid Meetings
Want to make your hybrid meetings more inclusive and productive? Up your game—and revitalize your organizati...
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Changing Change Management: The Shift from Process-Centered to People-Centered
Developed in a bygone era, traditional business models—such as change management—are trailing the era in w...
The Empathy Map: A Human-Centered Tool for Understanding How Your Audience Thinks
The Empathy Map: A Human-Centered Tool for Understanding How Your Audience Thinks
The humble empathy map is a powerful tool for understanding audiences whether designing information graphics, ...
Ten Tips for Running a Successful Workshop
Ten Tips for Running a Successful Workshop
A workshop or offsite can be a very powerful tool for collaboratively sharing information, generating new idea...
Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want
Six Games to Envision the Company Culture You Want
This blog post was last updated on February 6, 2024. Can you define how your culture drives your success? Do y...
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 ...
Seven Principles and Five Steps to Confidently Lead Organizational Change
Seven Principles and Five Steps to Confidently Lead Organizational Change
In today’s world of unrelenting change, organizations and leaders that will thrive are those mindfully build...
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...
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...