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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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Business Leader Standing in Office

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Decode Your Culture with Compono's Culture-Candidate Checker™

As your organisation grows, hiring the right people becomes one of the most critical factors for success. Yet, many businesses struggle with the...

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What Personality Traits Reveal About Leadership Potential (and What Surprised Us)

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Full Research: What Personality Traits Reveal About Leadership Potential (and What Surprised Us)

June 2025 | Insight from Compono’s Work Personality Research What kind of personality makes a great leader? Do strategic thinkers rise to the top?...

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Diversity of Thought

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The Balance Between Culture Fit and Diversity in Hiring

Yes, you can hire for both culture fit and diversity. The criticism of fit-based hiring is legitimate, though: when "fit" means a hiring manager's...

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Boosting employee engagement for better business outcomes

Employee engagement is much more than a buzzword or a trending topic in HR circles. It’s the secret sauce behind thriving workplaces, motivated...

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The Best Employee Engagement Model to Enhance Workplace Motivation

The best employee engagement model is the one that connects engagement to outcomes you can measure. Four frameworks dominate the field: Gallup's Q12,...

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Unlocking the Power of Alignment: A Revolutionary Approach to Organisational Success

Misalignment. It’s a word that sends shivers down the spine of business leaders everywhere. When employees and organisations aren’t on the same page,...

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The Strategic Importance of Measuring Company Culture

You measure company culture because the gap between how work happens now and how your people believe it should happen predicts performance problems...

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Understanding Assessment Personality Tools and Their Impact

Personality assessment tools measure how people naturally behave and prefer to work, usually through structured self-report questionnaires....

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Culture Amp vs Compono: Which is Better for Building High-Performing Teams?

If you're an HR leader or business decision-maker focused on creating high-performing teams, you've likely encountered both Culture Amp and Compono....

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Culture as the Foundation of Business Success

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Culture as the Foundation of Business Success

Culture is the foundation of business success because it shapes how decisions get made, how people treat each other, and whether strategy actually...

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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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Full Research: Latest HR & Talent Statistics (2025)

This page collects the latest HR and talent statistics in one place: organisational culture,...
4 min read

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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7 Free Personality Tests for Employees to Boost Engagement

The best free personality tests for employees are the Compono Work Personality assessment, Big Five...
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The complete guide to employee onboarding: best practices for 2025

Employee onboarding best practices come down to four things: start before day one, structure the...
14 min read

What is a Job Description? Understanding Its Importance and Components

A job description is a formal document that sets out a role's purpose, essential duties,...
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HRIS system: complete guide to human resource information systems

An HRIS (human resource information system) is software that stores all employee data and automates...
3 min read

C-Level Executives: Defining Their Roles and Impact on Business

C-level executives are the most senior leaders in an organisation. The "C" stands for "chief", as...
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