Resources

Free resources to help bring your people strategy into focus—across hiring, engagement, development and workforce capability.

rudy sitting at a desk

4 min read

Why Fluent Commerce made hours irrelevant

Rudy Crous:

Alex Pusenjak stopped tracking hours at Fluent Commerce and started tracking impact. The result: 96% employee...

4 min read

What whiteboard markers can teach us about employee engagement

Rudy Crous:

Deepak Singh asked his team a simple question after running an engagement survey: what would actually make a real...

4 min read

Culture is who you promote, not what's on the wall

Rudy Crous:

Most companies define culture as their values statement, their Friday drinks, their Slack emojis. Teresa Lilly, founder...

5 min read

Why pay is never about the number (and what startups keep getting wrong)

Rudy Crous:

Pay is one of those things that founders think they can figure out later. Matt McFarlane, compensation consultant and...

4 min read

The Post-It Note Test for team culture

Rudy Crous:

A Post-It note on your desk can give you a daily read on your team's culture between formal check-ins. Drew Mayhills,...

5 min read

How Movember uses AI to hear every candidate's story

Rudy Crous:

Movember's talent team built an AI agent into their recruitment process, and the reason had nothing to do with...

2 min read

Working as a CFO When Your Personality Doesn't Fit the Box

Amy Larfield:

As an accounting graduate with strong academic results and no clear idea of which direction to head, I applied for just...

3 min read

Make it hard to ignore: How to amplify your customers’ voice

David Youngman:

Championing customers isn't about saying "yes" to every request. It's about deeply understanding their needs, building...

2 min read

CFOs in a Start-Up: The Nitty Gritty of Numbers, Controls and Best Practice

Amy Larfield:

It's your first day. You want to see last month's P&L, the balance sheet, balance sheet reconciliations with work...

3 min read

During the Great Resignation, staff came to me weekly asking for more money. I had to keep saying no.

Tamara O'Sullivan:

At the peak of the Great Resignation, I was having the same conversation on repeat. A team member would come to me,...

3 min read

Why do we spend more time researching a 2K laptop than an 80K hire?

Daryl Ning:

Imagine it is Sunday night. You have fourteen tabs open in your browser. You’re reading through multiple blogs and...

4 min read

The sales leader early-stage founders think they need, and the one they actually need

Justin Coutts:

One of the most common mistakes early-stage founders and CEOs make is hiring the "big company sales gun" too early. You...

5 min read

Practical ways to meet regulator requirements without slowing your team down

Compono:

The most effective ways to meet regulator requirements involve embedding compliance tracking directly into your team's...

5 min read

How to choose capability assessment software vendors in the Northern Territory

Compono:

The best capability assessment software vendors for Northern Territory businesses are those that offer offline...

6 min read

Work personality test for enterprise: a guide to smarter team design

Compono:

A work personality test for enterprise is a scalable assessment that maps exactly how thousands of employees naturally...

5 min read

Is a competency management platform necessary for mid-market?

Compono:

A competency management platform is absolutely necessary for mid-market companies because manual tracking systems...

5 min read

Why a behavioural profile test is important for HR

Compono:

A behavioural profile test is important for HR because it replaces gut-feeling hiring with objective data, predicting...

4 min read

Why healthcare needs proficiency levels for patient safety

Compono:

Healthcare needs proficiency levels because a basic qualification does not guarantee a clinician can safely perform...

3 Ways People Analytics Makes You a Powerful Strategic Coach

Join Rudy Crous, CEO and Corporate Psychologist, as we explore how people analytics can elevate HR from a transactional...

This new way to shortlist candidates changes everything

One of the most important, yet time-consuming, parts of the hiring process is working out who to shortlist for an...

What exec teams really want from HR in 2024

In this one-time-only live webinar, Bob Schwartz (former Founder and President of eCommerce giants Nordstrom and...

This one simple change dramatically improves your hiring.

People Leaders! What if one simple change to your hiring process could increase staff engagement and performance by up...

What elite team sport can teach us about workplace culture

Elite team sports are high-pressure environments. And the difference between success and failure is often razor-thin....

How to Build More Sustainable Talent Pipelines.

Watch now as Mike Beeley, CEO, Lightbox Communications joins Raife Watson, Director of Partnerships, Compono to...

Are you the Evaluator,Coordinator,Doer,Auditor,Helper,Advisor,Pioneer,Campaigner ?

Take the assessment to discover your dominant work type based on your personality.

In less than 2 minutes and you will get a report with major characteristics, work preferences and potential blind spots.

Find out more

Compono worktypes with a man pointing at Work Personalities