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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...
Quickly Diagnose Your Organization’s Starting Point for Change
Quickly Diagnose Your Organization’s Starting Point for Change
Crafting an incisive business strategy is only the beginning of organizational change. To really get your stra...
The Right Tool for the Job: Three Simple Steps to Better Communications
The Right Tool for the Job: Three Simple Steps to Better Communications
Like wide-eyed kids in a candy shop, we’re faced with an enticing array of communication tools day and night...
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 Tools to Create a Solid Strategic Plan
Five Tools to Create a Solid Strategic Plan
Strategic planning is a bit like climbing a mountain. You can’t always see where you’re going, it’s toug...
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...
An Employee Every Boss Needs Right Now: The Intrapreneur
An Employee Every Boss Needs Right Now: The Intrapreneur
During trying times, intrapreneurs are your allies—nay, the aces up your sleeve—for devising creative solu...
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...
Eight Steps to Improving Employee Experience
Eight Steps to Improving 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...
Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
In times of crisis, a resilience plan can help your organization quickly pivot existing strategies and navigat...
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
We're all grappling with ways to make the remote experience more human, activate the senses, and create “aha...
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
Responding Effectively to Rapid and Unexpected Change
With the advent of COVID-19, we’re all in the midst of sudden change right now, responding as quickly as we ...
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE's top 25 tried-and-true tips for making the most of remote meetings and collaboration....
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...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
Four tools to help you implement lasting change in your company culture without fearing revolt and chaos....
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Move your organization to the 20% that succeeds in implementing a strategy with these three powerful principle...
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Organizational structure is experiencing a radical change. Horizontal relationships are overtaking the hierarc...