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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...
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...
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...
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...
9 Great Ways to Improve Your Next Workshop or Meeting
9 Great Ways to Improve Your Next Workshop or Meeting
If you’ve ever wondered how to make online workshops more engaging, dry meeting material come to life, or pr...
Tips to Get Started on Your Company’s Culture Transformation
Tips to Get Started on Your Company’s Culture Transformation
Has your company migrated toward more remote and hybrid work since the pandemic? If so, you might want to take...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Why “Customer Centricity” is a C-Suite Commitment: 12 Characteristics of a World-Class CX Strategy
Why “Customer Centricity” is a C-Suite Commitment: 12 Characteristics of a World-Class CX Strategy
What drives retention, referrals, and profitability and accelerates growth? Customer centricity, the classic o...
Tips and Tools for Great Hybrid Workplace Communication and Collaboration
Tips and Tools for Great Hybrid Workplace Communication and Collaboration
As hybrid teams become the new normal, what's the secret (or key) to nurturing robust communication and collab...
Five Steps to Transforming the Customer Experience and Accelerating Growth
Five Steps to Transforming the Customer Experience and Accelerating Growth
Studies show an organization’s focus on customers increases referrals, retention rates, and employee engagem...
How to Foster Trust on Remote Teams
How to Foster Trust on Remote Teams
How much do you trust your coworkers? According to experts, our prolonged run of predominantly remote work is ...
Make Your Workplace a Magnet for Top Talent
Make Your Workplace a Magnet for Top Talent
If you want to attract and retain top talent, it might be time to level up your organization’s employee expe...
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
As talent pools evaporate and employees leave jobs in droves for greener pastures each year, employers are kee...