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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...
How Using Gamification Moves Organizational Goals Forward
How Using Gamification Moves Organizational Goals Forward
Engaging and interactive, games have the power to bust through barriers and open the door to organizational ch...
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 ...
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...
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 Tools to Help You Successfully Implement Change
7 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...
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...
3 Reasons Facilitation Will Be Your Competitive Advantage in 2023
3 Reasons Facilitation Will Be Your Competitive Advantage in 2023
From enhancing collaboration to amping up productivity, skilled facilitation can make all the difference in ho...
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...
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...
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 ...
TiER1 Impact Expands Globally with XPLANE Acquisition
TiER1 Impact Expands Globally with XPLANE Acquisition
Portland, OR – August 17, 2022—TiER1 Impact has announced the acquisition of XPLANE, a global design consu...
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 ...
How to Enhance Your Facilitation Skills Using Visual Communication Tools
How to Enhance Your Facilitation Skills Using Visual Communication Tools
Do you want to be a more creative leader? A more effective facilitator? It may be time to try visual thinking�...
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...
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 �...