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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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5 Steps to Designing Your Organisation’s Culture

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5 Steps to Designing Your Organisation’s Culture

Designing your organisation's culture takes five deliberate steps: audit your current culture against the one you want, align your leadership team, tie culture to results and accountability, manage the systems that drive or block behaviour, and...

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Transforming HR

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Transforming HR: from corporate police to strategic coach

“You don’t have people problems until you get HR”. Ouch! Can you believe that I've heard this from some business owners and execs? Let's shine a...

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Product Update September 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 August 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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Andrew Banks

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Dump your resume and upload your brain chemistry!?

Don’t laugh, this way of finding a job is coming soon to your job market!” ...says Andrew Banks, Founder of Talent2/Morgan & Banks ASX listed...

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My best ever (virtual) onboarding experience

A great virtual onboarding experience runs in five stages: pre-boarding before day one, a structured first day, a first week of training and...

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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 practice, interleaving, elaboration, dual coding and...

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Culture is king, so why doesn’t recruitment reflect that?

Candidate fit sets the foundations for an engaged and productive workforce, yet most organisations don’t screen for culture.

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Designing visuals for effective learning

When you think about a graphic designer, what do you imagine? Perhaps a quirky creative with colourful clothes and hair? An artistic, free spirit? As...

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Microlearning Modules: Tiny Training that Packs a Punch

In this post Henno Kotze, Senior Instructional Designer at Compono (and self-confessed microlearning fanatic), tells us why microlearning is the...

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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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