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How to Bridge the Gap Between Strategic Planning and Execution for Lasting Change
How to Bridge the Gap Between Strategic Planning and Execution for Lasting Change
Is your meticulously crafted strategy falling flat during execution? Discover a powerful approach to making yo...
5 Foundational Storytelling Tips to Transform Your Presentations
5 Foundational Storytelling Tips to Transform Your Presentations
Ensure your message not only reaches but deeply engages your audience. Drive transformative change efficiently...
Trying to Lead Through Change? Tap into 5 Storytelling Secrets to Improve Your Presentations
Trying to Lead Through Change? Tap into 5 Storytelling Secrets to Improve Your Presentations
For leaders aiming to make a memorable mark, unlock the power of storytelling techniques in your presentations...
Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
Four Steps to Transform Unwieldy Data into a Captivating Story That Motivates and Inspires
In the push for meaningful metrics, an abundance of data can overwhelm even the most statistics-savvy professi...
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
A Human-Centered Approach to Effective Data Storytelling
Data storytelling is a powerful tool in driving transformational change, and one of the most difficult to mast...
Six Signs You Need a Consulting Partner to Help Activate Your Strategy
Six Signs You Need a Consulting Partner to Help Activate Your Strategy
Organizations spend about $160 billion a year on developing new strategy, yet research shows about 80% of thos...
Three Critical Principles for Accelerating Change
Three Critical Principles for Accelerating Change
With the strategic expertise of a traditional consulting firm and the creative power and process of a ...
How XPLANE’s Sprint-Based Approach Accelerates Organizational Change
How XPLANE’s Sprint-Based Approach Accelerates Organizational Change
Accelerating positive change for organizations, their people, and the world is a team effort. When clients and...
How XPLANE’s Approach Yields Outsized Change Transformation Results
How XPLANE’s Approach Yields Outsized Change Transformation Results
Where do you start when you need to lead organizational change? As experts in the field of organizational tran...
How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
In today’s dynamic world, an effective strategy must keep pace with change. Here’s how you can create all-...
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...
How to Engage People and Bring Your Strategy to Life
How to Engage People and Bring Your Strategy to Life
Moving strategy from planning to implementation can feel like going into overtime with nothing in reserve. But...
7 Best Practices to Successfully Lead Organizational Change
7 Best Practices to Successfully Lead Organizational Change
When you’re leading change in an organization, a lot can ride on your game plan. Take the guesswork out of b...
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...
Change Management Games to Turn Fear Into Fun
Change Management Games to Turn Fear Into Fun
Want a fun way to open up new ways of thinking and move your team toward change? Try games! Here’s why they ...
The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept
The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept
Struggling with outdated change management approaches? You’re not alone! Traditional change management was d...
Put People at the Center of Your Next Change Initiative
Put People at the Center of Your Next Change Initiative
Making change happen is a monumental task. How do you move people from passively hearing about a change to act...
What is “Strategy Activation”?
What is “Strategy Activation”?
Struggling to get your strategy off the ground? Don’t overlook strategy activation! This nuanced step betwee...
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...
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...
Confidently Lead Your Next Change Initiative
Confidently Lead Your Next Change Initiative
This post was updated August 23, 2022 Making change happen is a monumental task. How do you move people from p...
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategies that are launched with a complex presentation and “cascaded” down the ranks are bound to fail. ...
The Power of Working With a Design Consultancy
The Power of Working With a Design Consultancy
How would you define “design consultancy”? If you’re like XPLANE designer Catie Cooper, you might be a l...