Open Resource Library

A collection of free tools, templates and resources to elevate & improve company culture

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The Culture Design Toolkit by Open Org

A culture design toolkit for startup & scaleup people teams to facilitate culture design across various teams.

People Playbook: Proving ROI On Your People Initiatives

A guided playbook co-created by members of The Open Org Community to help people teams calculate, prove & communicate ROI on people projects & initiatives.

Open Org's Culture Heat-map

A diagnostic tool to assess your Culture using Open Org’s Culture OS, which frames culture as a series of tangible “how we…” statements. This approach makes it easier to diagnose opportunity areas and more accessible when communicating to executives.

The Open People Manager Handbook

Discover the Open People Manager Handbook created during Open Org's Q1-Q2 Hackathon 2024. Designed for startup people and culture leaders to support their people managers, this notion handbook offers 50+ curated tools, 11 detailed sections, and actionable guides to enhance people management skills and support critical culture moments.

Open Culture Framework

The Open Culture Framework helps Founders and People Leaders elevate organisational transparency internally and externally

Interview Question index

The Open Interview Index is a question bank of useful questions to leverage when interviewing so that you can get strong signal on the state of company culture and whether it's likely to be a good match for what you're looking for.

Operational Excellence Audit

Operational Excellence Audit for People Leaders to diagnose 'culture' in a language that resonates with commercially-minded stakeholders.

The Open Hiring Playbook

Open Org's Hiring Playbook is a free notion template curated from the best public candidate hubs and hiring playbooks we know of. You can use it as inspiration towards crafting your own hiring playbook.

The Open Culture Journey Map

Welcome to the Open Culture journey map! This free Miro template provides you with a guided journey along with open-source tools and tips to help you create an Open Culture that will attract and retain the best people for your organisation. This is ideal for progressive People & Talent folks working in startups and scale-ups looking to build open culture but not sure where to start or what the journey looks like.

Open Onboarding Cookbook

A curated buffet of onboarding ingredients to inspire the next iteration of your onboarding experience design.

The ultimate Open Job Ad curated from 25+ companies who do hiring transparency extremely well.

Transformation Playbook

Notion template to help guide transformation projects relating to increasing transparency in the workplace

Transparency Mini-Assessment

5 minute mini-assessment to understand how transparent your business is and uncover opportunities for growth

Open Org Employee Handbook

Employee handbook template on Notion

Transparency Business Case

A notion template for making the case for change and selling the ROI of transparency to the rest of your senior leadership team.

Transparency Charter Template

A notion template to communicate your organisation's stance on transparency.

Open Policy Index

A searchable open-source library of policies and employee handbook sections built by the People community to help accelerate company-building at startups/scale-ups.