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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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Employee engagement (10)

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Why engagement surveys don't work for modern teams

Engagement surveys don't work because they often measure past sentiments without providing a clear path for future action, leaving employees feeling...

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How to choose the best employee feedback software for your team

Employee feedback software is a digital platform designed to collect, manage, and analyse insights from staff to improve workplace culture and...

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Effective strategies for employee engagement Australia

The workplace engagement strategies that hold up in Australian organisations are the ones that change something structural: how work is allocated,...

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What motivates employees and how to build high-performing teams

What motivates employees is a combination of meaningful work, psychological safety, and an environment that aligns with their natural work...

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SME HR software Australia: a guide to smarter people management

SME HR software gives Australian small and mid-sized businesses one central platform to automate admin, manage employee data and improve team...

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Culture not working: how to identify and fix a failing workplace environment

Workplace culture is not working when there is a fundamental disconnect between a company’s stated values and the daily lived experience of its...

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Deepak Singh

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What whiteboard markers can teach us about employee engagement

Deepak Singh asked his team a simple question after running an engagement survey: what would actually make a real difference? Some teams came back...

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What causes employee turnover and how to prevent it

Employee turnover is most often caused by five things: the relationship with the direct manager, a role that does not match how someone naturally...

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How to choose the best employee engagement software Australia

Employee engagement software measures how connected people feel to their work and helps you act on it. For Australian mid-sized organisations that...

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Popular posts

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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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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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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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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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