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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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Work Personality (12)

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How to make objective hiring decisions for your team

Objective hiring decisions are reached by replacing gut feel with standardised frameworks, consistent scoring criteria, and evidence-based...

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How to choose the right team collaboration software

The right team collaboration software does more than manage tasks and messages. It fits the way your people naturally work, matching each person to...

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Myers Briggs hiring: why work personality matters more

Myers Briggs was never designed for hiring. The MBTI is a self-reflection tool built on Jungian theory, and it lacks the predictive validity to tell...

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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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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 truly understand your people for better performance

To understand your people effectively, you must look beyond surface-level skills and identify their underlying work personality, natural motivations,...

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How to avoid common hiring mistakes and build better teams

The most common hiring mistakes come from relying on gut feel instead of objective data: prioritising skills over behaviour, letting unconscious bias...

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Unlocking human potential at work: a guide for modern leaders

Unlocking human potential at work requires aligning an individual’s natural motivations and work personality with the specific demands of their role...

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Effective employee training: a guide to building better teams

Effective employee training is training that changes behaviour on the job, not training that gets completed. It starts with a clear gap analysis,...

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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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