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In 1999, XPLANE created one of the first business blogs. We have been adding great insights ever since. Check out our latest posts, filled with ideas for designing, facilitating, and creating lasting change for people and organizations.
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A Tool to Understand the People Impact of Agile Change Management
A Tool to Understand the People Impact of Agile Change Management
Use the People Impact Scan tool to identify how a change initiative will impact your people and determine wher...
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...
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 ...
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 â€...
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...
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...
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
When it comes to change, does your organization have a fairly good grip on things or does it feel more like yo...
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...
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...
Published on Forbes: Leadership Communication During Times Of Change: 10 Ways To Move Forward Together
Published on Forbes: Leadership Communication During Times Of Change: 10 Ways To Move Forward Together
If you’re a leader guiding your organization in a new direction, here are ten best practices to keep in mind...
Change DNA
Change DNA
Recently our team of consultants has been hard at work defining the eight design principles for organizat...
Change DNA – The 8 Principles of Change Series
Change DNA – The 8 Principles of Change Series
Ever wonder how someorganizations adapt gracefully – or even thrive – in a changing environment wh...
The fifth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Goodbye hierarchy. Hello organic organization.
The fifth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Goodbye hierarchy. Hello organic organization.
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Success Skill #3: “Execution and...
The fourth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Good culture is good business.
The fourth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Good culture is good business.
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Success Skill #2: “Execution and...
The third in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Innovation. Once optional, now the rule.
The third in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Innovation. Once optional, now the rule.
By Parker Lee
President, XPLANE
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Succes...
The second in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Four success skills point the way to tackling the challenge of change.
The second in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Four success skills point the way to tackling the challenge of change.
In our first Did You Know? Series post, we introduced how companies need to embrace a new way of connecting wi...
Convergence: It’s About Who You Are and the Experience You Create
Convergence: It’s About Who You Are and the Experience You Create
If you read that headline out of context, you might guess that it was in reference to a carpe diem-type affirm...
The first in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Thrive in the 21st century: introducing Business 3.0.
The first in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Thrive in the 21st century: introducing Business 3.0.
This first post of our blog Series introduces how companies need to embrace a new way of connecting with emplo...
A Picture of Change Management
A Picture of Change Management
Designer Rob Dersley did an amazing job of visually capturing sessions and speeches at the recent Association ...
The Secret Ingredient for Change
The Secret Ingredient for Change
Change is not a four-letter word. But it may as well be. No one likes to change, and those who say they do, as...
Changing Change Management
Changing Change Management
Two recent blog posts on Harvard Business Review shine a light on the challenges – and opportunities &nd...
How to Make Changes Stick
How to Make Changes Stick
The more profound the change, the greater the effort needed to ensure long-term adoption of the changes. To fo...
Digging into Behavioral Change
Digging into Behavioral Change
Peter Cheese, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK and the MIX, authors this ...