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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...
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...
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...
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...
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
As the number of remote workers continues to grow, team leaders and managers must find new ways to keep them f...
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
Explore powerful tools and resources designed to create organizational change, inspire ideas, and fuel transfo...
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
When you want to help employees better understand complex concepts and ideas, try drawing. Here's why....
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...
The Three Elements Needed to Craft an Effective Visual Strategy
The Three Elements Needed to Craft an Effective Visual Strategy
When you’re a designer faced with synthesizing mountains of disparate information into a concise visual, you...
The Power of the Playbook
The Power of the Playbook
Playbooks are a powerful tool to help business teams not only to act as one but also to adapt as one. They sha...
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Radical shifts are happening in the way we communicate at work. What and how we communicate can mean the diffe...
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Use these seven design thinking lessons–specifically service design–to inform a better sales process for y...
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...
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Disengaged employees are not doomed to soul-destroying days in the office. When we build meaning into our work...
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
70% of XPLANE community survey respondents felt divisive workplace behaviors were their biggest organizational...
Autonomy, Process, and Learning: Principles of Digital Work
Autonomy, Process, and Learning: Principles of Digital Work
Shifting to the realities of the digital workplace is not a technical problem. It needs a realignment of minds...
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Non-adult behaviors are significant barriers to organizational change. It’s is time to have real conversatio...
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
With over 25+ years of culture mapping experience, XPLANE has uncovered many work behaviors and interactions t...
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...