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To Be an Effective Modern Leader, Cultivate These Five Traits
To Be an Effective Modern Leader, Cultivate These Five Traits
Make no mistake about it—remote work and decentralized teams are here to stay. If you’re a leader at work,...
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
While domestic companies spend a staggering $100 billion per year on corporate training, only one in four busi...
3 Tips for Better Facilitation
3 Tips for Better Facilitation
The modest superhero of any meeting, the humble facilitator wields great power—helping groups deal with diff...
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...
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...
8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
8 Insightful Steps to Improve Employee Experience
What does it mean to be people-centered and how can this approach enhance the employee experience? A simple vi...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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....
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....
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...
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why do digital transformation efforts remain incredibly difficult to do successfully? Most don’t focus enoug...
Why the Most Effective Operations Managers Truly Value Great Culture
Why the Most Effective Operations Managers Truly Value Great Culture
Your organization’s ability to execute—to operate effectively and efficiently—is directly related to the...
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...
Make Culture and Employee Engagement Your Strategic Advantage
Make Culture and Employee Engagement Your Strategic Advantage
Today’s C-Suite must put company culture and employee experience at the top of their dashboard in order to r...
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...
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...