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View all featured posts, articles by Rudy Crous, (Corporate Psychologist, Compono CEO and Co-founder), or filter below for your desired topic.

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How to identify skills gaps in your team

To identify skill gaps, write down the capabilities your goals require over the next 12 to 24 months, audit what your team can actually do today, overlay the two, then rank what is missing by impact and difficulty. The step most teams skip is the...

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How to unlock employee potential in modern teams

To unlock employee potential, you must align individual work preferences with specific team activities while providing a leadership style that...

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Best Spark Hire alternative for data-driven hiring

The best Spark Hire alternative depends on what you want the tool to do once the videos are in. Willo and Hireflix are the closest like for like...

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A guide to evidence-based assessment for modern teams

Evidence-based assessment is the process of using proven psychological research and objective data to evaluate a person’s fit, skills, and potential...

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WHS training software: a guide to safer modern workplaces

WHS software is an umbrella term for two different products that buyers often confuse. A WHS management system records incidents, hazards, risk...

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How to identify and fix a bad workplace culture

A bad workplace culture is one where low trust, guarded communication and inconsistent leadership behaviour have become normal, usually because the...

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Employee training software: a guide to smarter development

Employee training software is a digital platform designed to manage, deliver, and track learning programmes that improve staff skills and performance.

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Effective performance drivers at work for modern teams

Performance drivers at work are the individual motivations, environmental conditions and team dynamics that determine how effectively people deliver....

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How to implement unbiased candidate assessment in your team

Unbiased candidate assessment is achieved by replacing subjective gut feelings with standardised, data-driven evaluation criteria that measure a...

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Toxic culture at work: how to identify and fix it

A toxic culture at work is a pervasive environment of mistrust, exclusion and poor psychological safety that undermines employee wellbeing and...

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What is proficiency levels: a guide to mapping team skills

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Conscientiousness in the workplace: the ultimate guide

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