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Free People & Culture frameworks, templates, and tools you can use straight away.
29 resources
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Communication Operating Models
Pick your team's comms blueprint, four editions from fully async to sync-first, with a self-diagnosis quiz, shared playbook, and startup-ready defaults.
Compensation Philosophy Template
A complete open template for designing and documenting how your organisation pays people - principles, base pay, equity, bonus, commission, benefits, levelling, and pay review.
EU Pay Transparency Directive Diagnostic
Five-question diagnostic for Directive (EU) 2023/970: EU headcount tiers, multi-country transposition status, recruitment gaps, and prioritised next moves.
A Guide to the EU Pay Transparency Directive
What every EU employer needs to know about Directive (EU) 2023/970: six requirements, reporting thresholds, country status as of July 2026, and what to do now.
Transparency Charter Template
A template for documenting why transparency matters, what it means in your organisation, how and when you share openly, and what stays closed by default.
Transformation Playbook
An eight-stage blueprint for People leaders delivering transformative change, from sparking urgency to embedding new ways of working.
Values Evolution Blueprint
Open Org's 7-step blueprint for values design and evolution: org comms, survey, synthesis, playback, workshops, v1 feedback, and an operationalisation roadmap with templates.
Open Culture Framework
An interactive diagnostic that scores 36 transparency areas across six pillars using Open Org's L0-L3 Open Culture Score (max 1080), with suggestions to raise openness.
Onboarding Cookbook
A curated selection of onboarding practices and fully documented company approaches. Remix practices from open culture companies into your own Day Minus through Month 3 experience.
Compensation Cookbook
A curated selection of compensation practices from companies that publish how they pay. Remix philosophy, transparency, negotiation, raises, equity, and benefits.
Hiring Cookbook
A curated selection of hiring practices from companies that publish how they attract, screen, and close talent. Remix job ads, sourcing, screening, interviews, work trials, and offers.
Org Design Cookbook
A curated selection of org design practices from companies that publish how they structure teams, manage, size headcount, and weave AI into the operating system.
Performance Cookbook
A curated selection of performance practices from companies that publish how they run cadence, ratings, manager remits, feedback, and consequences.
AI Adoption Cookbook
A curated selection of AI adoption practices from companies that publish how they start, mandate, gamify, embed, and learn from mistakes.
Proving ROI on People Initiatives
Quantify people work, communicate value to leadership, and secure buy-in with a value framework, decision tree, ROI calculator pattern, and business case outline.
Careers Site Playbook
What great looks like on a transparent careers site: video, story, culture, DEI, hiring process, ways of working, and benefits, with examples that we love (& don't love) from real companies.
Transparent Job Advert Template
A template with real, curated examples we love from other companies' job adverts. Open, transparent, and great at helping candidates to opt out as well.
Culture Compatibility Index
Dual-company M&A cultural due diligence. Score Company A and Company B on operating-style continua, see alignment gaps, and prioritise the integration roadmap.
Culture Heatmap
An interactive diagnostic that scores 29 culture statements across nine areas - from communication to conflict - and reveals where your organisation is thriving and where it needs attention.
People & Culture Roadmap Template
A Notion template for mapping your People & Culture priorities, initiatives, and sequencing.
Open Org's Performance Playbook Template
A Notion performance playbook template for designing fair, clear performance practices.
People Team Charter Template
A Notion charter template to define how your People team operates, decides, and partners with the business.
The Open People Manager Handbook
A Notion handbook with 50+ curated tools and 11 sections to support startup people managers.
Open Culture Journey Map
A Miro journey map with open-source tools and tips for building an open culture in startups and scale-ups.
Culture Design Toolkit
A Miro toolkit with personal, leadership-team, and org-wide culture design diagnostics and facilitation guides.
Employee Handbook Template
A Notion employee handbook template covering key handbook sections, with real-life examples for inspiration.
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Open Policy Index
A searchable open-source library of startup and scale-up policies and handbook sections from the People community.
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Open Hiring Playbook
A Notion hiring playbook curated from public candidate hubs, with guidance for crafting your own.
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Open Interview Index
A question bank for interviewing on culture fit, with guidance on red flags, green flags, and why to ask.