Templates and guidelines you can use today.
Practical, evidence-linked working documents for people-development decisions — each one grounded in our library and reviewed before it ships. Free to use, print, and adapt.
Variable-Pay & Recognition Framework
Bonus formula + the non-cash levers that 2026 research says it has to sit alongside. Sourced from R1's verbatim Phase 0 ask and three articles in our own library. Use when designing or rebu…
Open→Performance Review Conversation Template (KSA-aware)
Structure for a performance review conversation, adapted for the KSA cultural context. Benchmarked against 10 corpus articles including SHRM's 2026 MENA performance management piece, Harvar…
Open→The Stay Check — a 6-question retention conversation
A short, structured conversation a manager can run with a current employee to surface why a good person might leave — before they do. Six questions, each tied to a known retention driver (m…
Open→How to Design a Bonus Framework
The reasoning behind the variable-pay template — what to argue with the comp committee, when each pattern works, when it doesn't. Pairs with the Variable-Pay & Recognition Framework templat…
Open→How to Verify a People-Practice Claim
A 30-minute protocol for verifying any people-practice claim before you act on it, with the bias-research evidence base from our library. Built on the 6/6 unanimous Phase 0 verification-pai…
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