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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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Product Update February 2025

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment.

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Leadership Styles and Your Personality

Your work personality shapes your default leadership style. Evaluators, Coordinators and Doers tend toward directive leadership, Campaigners, Helpers...

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Product Update December 2024

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment.

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Product Update November 2024

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment.

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Product Update October 2024

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Product Update October 2024

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment.

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The Scientific Recruiter

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The Scientific Recruiter

Ever wondered why the Spartans had only an army of 300 in the battle of Thermopylae?

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Psychometric Assessments the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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Psychometric Assessments: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

I consider myself fortunate to have been mentored by some of the most renowned Organisational Psychologists. With their guidance, I’ve received...

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Why Atlassian won’t be the only company turning away brilliant jerks

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Why Atlassian won’t be the only company turning away brilliant jerks

Over our working careers, many of us have come across the ‘brilliant jerks’ of the workplace. We all know these individuals – they are technically...

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How smarter hiring can help Australia’s disengaged employee epidemic

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How smarter hiring can help Australia’s disengaged employee epidemic

Globally, businesses are facing an epidemic of disengaged employees. A Gallup report revealed 71% of Australians are not engaged with their jobs and...

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An Explanation of Safety Culture and How it can be Operationalised for the Workforce

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How Safety Culture can be Operationalised for the Workforce

As CEO of Compono, I’m a firm believer that it’s simply not enough for me and my team to focus only on building intelligent software. It is also...

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The Six Learning Science Principles We Live By

The six learning science principles that make training stick are retrieval practice, spaced...
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7 Free Personality Tests for Employees to Boost Engagement

For team design, start with the Compono Work Personality™ assessment. It is free, takes four...
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How to post job ads on LinkedIn: A step-by-step guide for HR managers

To post a job ad on LinkedIn: log into your company Page, go to the Jobs section and select the...
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Full Research: Latest HR & Talent Statistics (August 2026)

Last reviewed August 2026 This page collects the HR, talent acquisition, engagement, culture and...
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Predictive index results types: understanding the 17 profiles

Predictive Index results are grouped into 17 reference profiles across four categories: Analytical,...
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What is proficiency levels: a guide to mapping team skills

Last reviewed August 2026 Competency levels (also called proficiency levels or levels of expertise)...
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Understanding Performance Evaluation Bias for HR Managers

Last reviewed August 2026 Bias in performance appraisal is a systematic error in judgement that...
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Conscientiousness in the workplace: the ultimate guide

Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits: the tendency to be organised and...
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