--- title: OpenBlend Reviews meta_title: 'OpenBlend Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 28 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenBlend works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 28 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-22' parent_category: name: Talent Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-management --- # OpenBlend Reviews **Vendor:** OpenBlend **Category:** [Performance Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/performance-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About OpenBlend OpenBlend is a performance management tool that helps users have great conversations that drive performance. We exist to help organisations ensure equity, consistency and quality in manager/employee conversations. By giving users a tool that helps organise, prepare, focus and guide these conversations, meaningful actions can be created that set the individual up to perform at their best. OpenBlend is used for regular performance conversations that aid the formal appraisal process, goal alignment and achievement, wellbeing and individual motivators. ## OpenBlend Reviews ### 1. Strengthens relationships across the business at all levels **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kerry U. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Open Blend puts the employee at the heart of all 1-1 conversations. It facilitates discussions based predominantly on an agenda created by the employee. It is extremely simple to use, encourages regularity and reminds managers that there is a real person in front of them who has a life outside of work which impacts their behaviour and ability to do their job. It promotes and develops a coaching style and supports a consistent approach to 1-1's across the business. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I can't think of anything I dislike about Open Blend. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bringing consistency to 1-1's - ensuring that all staff have regular meetings with their line manager Strengthening relationships across the business - ensuring no topics are off limits Enabling employees to bring their whole self to work - supporting our diversity and inclusion goals Developing coaching skills in our managers - helping individuals to find resolutions to their own challenges which develops self-confidence **Official Response from Jordan Ambrose:** > Hi Kerry, Thanks so much for this lovely review. Bringing consistency to 1:1's is one of our founding principles - promoting equity throughout the manager/employee relationship. You may be excited to know that we are about to go further to help develop coaching skills in managers and conversation skills for employees with Lightbulb. It is our forthcoming module giving bite-sized learning resources available in the moment or as a path to enable even better conversations on key topics in the 1:1. More news to follow! ### 2. Makes good quality, development led coaching available to all during their 1-2-1s **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** OpenBlend is a real leveller in terms of line manager ability. Regardless of line manager experience and competence, OpenBlend allows everyone to experience a well structured, development led, coaching based 1-2-1 with their line manager. It's easy to generate actions and outocmes from these conversations, and provide individuals with a clear set of next steps towards achieving their goals. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** The system genrates huge amount of potentially helpful data, which can sometimes be tricky to interpret without support from OpenBlend. However our Customer Success Manager is always willing to give us whatever we need around data, making it relevant and helpful. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend provides an intuitive and accessible platform to support our line managers to have productive performance management conversations which are coaching-based, and therefore maximise engagement and development for the line report. This means that the quality of performance managment in our organisation is consistently high, and our employees have clear and specific objectives which moves the organisation towards achieving its goals. Everyone in the organisation is clear on where we're going and their part in how we're going to get there, which is a game-changer in terms of employee engagement and participation. OpenBlend gives us a more focussed, engaged and productive group of staff. **Official Response from Jordan Ambrose:** > Hi Chris, Thanks so much for leaving us a review. We are always happy to help you interpret data but are also working as a team to make sure that you have the most relevant, useful data at hand at all times. And speaking of coaching, we are super excited to be launching 'Lightbulb' soon, our bite-sized coaching resources to help both managers and talent have even more effective 1:1 conversations. Watch this space! ### 3. User friendly design with lots of good features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The scheduling and reminders about upcoming 1:1s, the ability to add different talking points, that you can send high fives to people and the motivators are all helpful. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I have occassionally felt a bit lost when navigating. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to organise and log meetings with my direct report and to understand her needs and motivators. ### 4. OpenBlend has changed our Performance Conversation! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The implementation of OpenBlend was smooth and tailored to us. The change of behaviour towards the regular conversations we are now having is welcomed and has transformed the conversation from KPI's based and now more conversations to the needs of the individual. The frequency of conversation is dependent on the individual. Multiple features that help drive engagement, and the system is easy use and understand. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** At the moment, I can't think of anything that I dislike as OpenBlend are regularly developing and improving the system. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** The switch between a Manager led conversation to now an employee led and owned performance management tool. The focus on employee motivations and wellbeing is a game changer and now, managers are closer to their teams than ever before. **Official Response from Jordan Ambrose:** > This is great to hear! OpenBlend's mission at heart is to help the manager and employee have great, performance enhancing conversations and that cannot be done without focussing in on topics like wellbeing and personal motivation. Lot's more innovation coming to help that cause, so watch this space! ### 5. A brilliant platform, it really helps to build confidence in my management ability and the **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca E. | Head Of Client Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** It gives you the opportunity to understand what matters most to your employees, what drives them and what has a real impact on their emotional wellbeing. As well as how they like to be managed and what they need to perform at their best. Combine this with features that are built to make one-to-one conversations more effective, with helpful coaching prompts, wellbeing trackers and performance objectives and you come away from one-to-ones feeling and knowing that you've been able to contribute to improvements in their overall performance and how they feel towards work. OpenBlend makes performance convos, a really collaborative process, where employees have a stake in their own career plans and can bring their own agenda to one-to-ones. They know what they are working towards, and have clarity in how their personal objectives feed into company objectives. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** That it isn't a universal tool in all companies everywhere. I speak to so many friends and family members who aren't afforded the opportunity like I am to bring their own agenda points to their one-to-ones and have an impact on how they build and grow their team. The fact people are missing out is sad :( **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to have open and honest and also sometimes difficult conversations. OpenBlend helps to create a really safe space for me to be able to communicate about performance challenges with individual members of my team. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much for your review Rebecca, it's much appreciated. Really happy to read that OpenBlend makes your life easier as a Manager to have both easy and difficult conversations with your team members. ### 6. An employee experience like no other **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amardeep D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The account management experience we receive is brilliant. Proactive and insightful, they really understand the needs of our business and how OpenBlend can best support us. We love that our colleagues are able to use the tool in the way that works best for them - we make recommendations on frequency of use and the benefits of the different features, but ultimately the messaging is that the main purpose is to support effective coaching conversations between individuals and their manager, so it is in their hands. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** The product in itself is sound. The one thing that would make the OpenBlend experience a 10 out of 10 one, would be the speed that they could get customer-specific product enhancements or recommendations implemented. The more we use the tool, the more we see the benefits of adding features that would benefit our company specifically, such as reporting functionality and further development of new features. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend supports Travelport's drive to have an open and transparent communication culture; it allows individuals to have conversations that they perhaps would not have had with their managers before, giving managers insight into how best to support their teams in order for them to bring their best everyday and perform for the company. Understanding our colleagues - passions, wellbeing, areas for development - means that we can engage with them as effectively as possible for personal success as well as the success of the organization. We can make correlations between our attrition data and frequency of conversations. We can see what motivates teams and where there are gaps between where they currently are and where they want to be, and if these areas of motivation are work specific, where we need to put concerted efforts to improve in these areas. ### 7. A fantastic coaching tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I have used various CRM systems, bespoke coaching platforms (even Microsoft Excel and Apple ‘Notes’!!) to document coaching conversations in an attempt to measure impact and keep people accountable. The deficiency in all of these approaches has been the ease-of-use and wide-ranging areas of focus that come as standard within OpenBlend. As a platform, it provides a highly customisable experience which allows me to focus on what each individual direct report wants to focus on as well as needs to. Before we’ve begun, people are already invested in my conversations, because they truly feel like it’s to their benefit. When you blend (no pun intended) this with the coaching prompts and suggestions, ability to track long-term objectives and attribute shorter term actions to measure impact and progress over time. It’s the most comprehensive and supportive tool I have ever come across. It allows me the freedom to focus on asking the best question, touching the right nerve and properly listen to what I’m being told, rather than constantly having an internal conversation about how I’ll track something or scratch around to remember what was discussed last time. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Really nitpicking here but I'd say that the Slack integration elements can be a little over-bearing. You'll get a LOT of notifications, even when seemingly I have turned them off. That said, the prompts are handy and I can totally see how if you were a new manager these would be exceptionally helpful. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend is our one-stop tool for everything from over-arching strategic objectives, allowing us to draw a clear line between Chief objectives down to junior members of staff. From there, month-to-month milestones, through to weekly actions are captured as a single source of taccountability. When then blended (no pun intended) with a comprehensive set of personal / professional drivers, that allow us to get an on-demand insight into how people are feeling and where they need care and consideration, OB is the most effortless and robust coaching and accountability tool that emphasises to our staff that they are the priority, not the process. I think this is a trap that can easily be fallen into when using too many platforms to track and measure performance. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much for taking the time to review OpenBlend Josh. Thrilled of course to hear about the impact it's having for you and your team. ### 8. A great system to help create an open culture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** At its heart it provides a platform which supports managers and team members in having powerful conversations. Further functionality such as High Fives, Evaluate and Feedback help the wider culture and development of a business. It's not a silver bullet, you will still need to consistently invest in your company culture and in ensuring there is trust between managers and team members, but Open Blend defintely helps you on that journey. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Whilst you can opt in and out of the various additional functions, true dual branding/customising of dashboards isn't really an option. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helped modernise our approach to people management. It's helped change the classic hierachical objective based conversations between managers and team members to more open conversations which are lead by the junior member of the team, rather than their manager. This has helped us create a more open culture in the company, which has in turn helped us grow sales and profit. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much Matt for taking the time to provide a review. We are very happy that your results are clear and OpenBlend is able to assist in that modernisation for people management. We take the feedback of the branding/customisation of dashboards and will feed this into our product development initiatives. ### 9. Fantastic coaching led platform which drives performance culture! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lara S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I love the holistic approach to an employee's 121. The platform is fantastic for allowing an employee to lead their 1-2-1's and keep focus on the important things, whilst also allowing them to leave space for anything else they wish to discuss; in turn keeping focus on them as an individual rather than making it feel simply transactional. The Openblend team are supportive and allow us to regularly discuss what we would like to see with the tech team - who are open to anything! **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Sometimes the system is inflexible, you want to change something but it has to go through the tech team and takes time. However having said that, the tech team takes on all advice and is always looking at ways to improve things. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a platform which could formalise objective setting and house all information from 1-2-1's, which could then be used for performance reviews. The platform contains everything we need to do this! **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you Lara for taking the time to review OpenBlend, it really is appreciated. So pleased that you're feeding back areas for improvement and that we're able to respond. We aim to navigate requests and feedback from customers on development areas as best we can. ### 10. A great way to build relationships with employees **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charlotte D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I love that I can have all of my management notes about my employees in one place. I don't have to rely on memory to recall important priorities or development notes, it's all there when its needed - and that helps me to have really personal comversations with everyone. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Sometimes I struggle to remember where things are and click on the wrong bit, but I think this is my problem not the platform. However, it would be interesting to have a 'walkthrough' where it takes you through each step one at a time, with one 'step' per screen if that makes sense? **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping me to directly address performance issues - like obstacles to working, skills gaps, personal issues - and create a step by step plan to pick them up in each openblend. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Great feedback Charlotte thank you so much! I will get in touch with some resources that will assist you. ### 11. A tool that empowers a culture of high-performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Freya M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Open Blend puts employee well-being and performance at the centre of the conversation. It facilitates meaningful discussions between people and their managers. The in-built coaching features empower managers to have honest and future-focused discussions on performance and create a culture of high-performing teams. Our Account Manager Hannah is fantastic to work with - frequently reviewing our feedback and delivering on software updates to improve the user experience. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** There's nothing to dislike about OpenBlend. A few comments for improvement would be around creating a more seamless link between company values / behavioural competencies and performance & development objectives. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend empowers our people to have employee-led performance-based discussions that empower them to have performance and development objectives aligned with their personal and professional values while directly impacting the business's strategic goals. OpenBlend also helps us create a culture of high-performing managers and leaders by enabling them to confidently coach, empower, and lead their team members. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Freya thank you so much for our glowing review of OpenBlend! We are currently working behind the scenes on a new module that would be delivering more on the competency piece you mention. Watch this space for upcoming releases! ### 12. Great system to facilitate meaningful conversations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rhoda N. | Performance Partner - Brand, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The system itself is great for facilitatiing conversation, and prompting managers to consider their people and not just their work. The support form openblend in regards to advancements and improvements is very good. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** The data and reporting. Theres loads there but its just not easy to pull the data you want to see. It can sometimes take a while to export it and sort it in a useful way. However, again, Openblend are constantly listeining to feedback and making improvements. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's providing managers with insight in to their teams performance and wellbeing - which are linked and often not associated with one another **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Hi Rhoda, first of all thank you for taking the time to review OpenBlend. Please can you lean on your Customer Success Manager to support you with delivering the data you need and making sense of everything you have access to. The new Data dashboard hopefully is a win for you as we roll out easier ways to interpret the data points. The API too is an option if you haven't discussed that yet with us. ### 13. OpenBlend Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I like the blend and wellbeing features the best.  These are real differentiators with OpenBlend and allow employees and managers to offer transparency to work and home-related topics, providing a holistic view of what is essential. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** During our recent launch of the evaluate feature, there was some frustration about the lack of formatting and how closing out the sessions was not intuitive. However, having provided feedback to OpenBlend, we are delighted these are being resolved to improve the user interface and user experience. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managers move to a coaching style due to hybrid working model, needing clearer communication on work expectations. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Sarah thank you so much for your review and feedback on Evaluate. We do absolutely want feedback from customers on areas where we can make improvements. ### 14. Transforms manager and employee conversations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charlotte W. | Global Head of Talent & Development, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Open Blend facilitates meaningful conversations between our people and their managers. Our people lead the conversation about all aspects of their work and life bringing their authentic selves to work. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I have yet to discover a downside and have had experience of using the platform for over 5 years. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Open Blend supports our managers to understand what motivates, drives and inspires our people. All managers want the best out of their people but they cant hope to achieve this without using this platform to encourage the individual to share what's important to them and respond accordingly. Open Blend supports career progression, wellbeing, productivity, engagement and a sense of purpose and reduces unwanted attrition. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Charlotte, thank you so much for taking the time to review OpenBlend it's much appreciated! ### 15. Feel valued as an individual **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Serena J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** As a manager I really liked the dashboards and summary views, they made it really easy to have the right conversations at the right time. As an employee I felt valued as an individual, I felt that the company I worked for implemented OpenBlend because they genuinely cared about their employees on a personal level. Happy employees make for a great business! **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I honestly can't think of anything that I'd change about the OpenBlend experience. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend provides a structured framework to enable meaningful conversations between employees and their managers. It's really helping to break down barriers of topics that are traditionally more difficult to discuss in a professional setting. OpenBlend promotes a Work/Life 'Blend' as opposed to a Work/Life 'Balance' because the two really impact each other and it's important for organisations to understand what's really important to their people. As a manager, you can get a clear picture of what drives your team members and this helps to make informed decisions. For example, you're more likely to offer overtime to a team member who prioritises career progression over a team member who prioritises time with their family. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Serena thank you so much for taking the time to review OpenBlend, your story is so powerful. ### 16. Open Blend has equipped our managers to have meaningful, employee-led conversations with the teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deborah M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The coaching tool - empowering our managers to have an open and transparent dialogue with the team members. Enables employees to identify their drivers and align those with their career objectives. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Open Blend were ahead of its time, so the tech side took a while to catch up with their ideas. Evidently, they have been heavily invested in this area, and the tool is becoming far more accessible for the end user to use. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Equipping managers with adopting a coaching mindset when talking to their team members about their objectives and key drivers. We are benefiting from having a performance management tool that is person-centric, rather than just a 'tick-box' exercise. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much Deborah for taking the time to review us, it's much appreciated. ### 17. OpenBlend is a fantastic tool in helping employees focus on their development in a holistic way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** A holistic approach to development. OpenBlend is a flexible tool that allows employees to really own their development. It is an intuitive tool that promotes a coaching culture. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Frequent updates on the system. Users need to get up to speed with new features on the platform. The OpenBlend team run product review sessions so customers can feedback their view on these changes. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily use OpenBlend for employee development and objectives. It is a great platform to capture employees' development goals and prompts conversations between managers - direct reports that would not have been discussed otherwise. ### 18. Game changing for our company and how we have meaningful conversations with our teams. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracy W. | Group HR, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** the ability for it to be Employee led - as well as Manager led. and that it allows for coaching - it has a magnitude of articles and "help" on the go. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I would like it to be able to customise KPI's and add into the platform, tailored KPIs - as opposed to only being able to log that in the Objectives section. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to have more meaningful conversations - to track to-do's - talking points, and progress - as well as have a temperature gage on the team and how their wellbeing and blends are tracking. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you Tracy for you review, we really do appreciate it and we shall feed your comments about KPI's back to Product Development. ### 19. A coaching tool for balancing staff wellbeing and performance in perfect harmony. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Open Blend helps managers to have meaningful conversations with staff and allows staff to have input in what they want from their one to ones in a constructive way. It balances performance, objectives and actions really neatly with wellbeing and personal motivators which gives the supervisor and supervisee a helpful perspective on how well someone is doing at work and outside of work. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I'd like to see easier ways of extracting information which would help with interoperability with other HR systems. However, the really helpful sales team have recently started working on this for us. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is putting wellbeing on the agenda for employees and ensuring managers are incorporating this into conversations about performance **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much for your review and for your feedback on the integrations. We're always keen to hear from customers on their needs from our product as it develops. ### 20. Fantastic platform to improve engagement and performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** The coaching structure helps managers have better conversations with their teams resulting in great outcomes for both the employee and the business. The platform gives employees influence and input into how these conversations happen , making them more engaged in the process, as well as making the conversations more productive. The platform is easy to navigate and gives managers clear oversight of their team's performance against objectives, motivators and wellbeing. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** it would be useful if HR teams had access to the same data that the managers have. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consistent objective setting aligned to organisational goals ### 21. Open Blend is a fantastic tool that helps our business better understand the needs of our team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christian G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Having open conversations with the team about how they are doing and how we, as a business can help them strive towards their individual goals/target. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** The feedback process can be improved and we can't see all the objectives at the same time. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the first instance it was helping inexperienced managers to have conversation in an easy to follow format **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Christian thank you so much for providing your review of OpenBlend. Would you mind letting your Customer Success Manager know your specific feedback on your requirements for Objectives please and we can feed this into our Product Development? ### 22. Acorn OpenBlend Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** OpenBlend is very easy to use. It helps facilitate important conversations about what motivates employees and their wellbeing. The objective-setting feature means that all individual and team objectives can be linked to company objectives. The reporting suite is really comprehensive and gives a global, company view as well as the ability to filter by department. OpenBlend are always launching software updates which enhance the user experience and our Account Manager, Hannah, couldn't be more helpful. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** There are no negatives to OpenBlend, although the Evaluate functionality could be more user-friendly. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend has helped communication between managers and employees; facilitating more open and honest conversations. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Emily thank you so much for taking the time to review OpenBlend. We have some updates being released for Evaluate shortly so hopefully this will be good news for you. ### 23. Openblend review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ciara F. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I like that its based on wellbeing overall and is employee led. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** There is a lot of admin involved in the evaluate cycles. Hard to track if the 1:1 has happened or not as some managers forget to press submit. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives employees an opportunity to express whats important to them both personally and professionally. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much for writing a review for us Ciara. Hopefully an upcoming product release will make a big difference to the 1:1 being recorded through improvements in the user interface. Please contact your Customer Success Manager for more information on what's to come. ### 24. Excellent performance management software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caroline H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** We loved how colleagues could tailor their experience with the platform and how it facilitated regular, open discussions with their managers. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Didn't have any dislikes! The team at OB proactively and quickly resolved any technical issues we encountered. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Following the shift to remote working in the pandemic, OpenBlend was a streamlined, simple-to-use tool for colleagues to stay connected, and continue being supported by, their managers. ### 25. OpenBlend is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eleni P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Evaluate cycles! They are super useful to analyze and contribute to bettering our business. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** Nothing that i dislike; maybe a feature that allows you to have peer discussions could be good? **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenBlend is making it easier to have conversations with your manager, and to set yourself goals etc., to be able to guide these coversations. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Eleni thank you so much for taking the time to review us, it's much appreciated! ### 26. Good platform for holistic sessions on both wellbeing and performance. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** I like that it encourages a mix of both personal and professional conversations. **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I am still not great at using all of the functionality and getting the best out of it. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps track progress of objectives and gives data on employees wellbeing. **Official Response from Shelley Davies:** > Thank you so much for writing a review on OpenBlend. If there's anything we can do to support your use please do let your Customer Success Manager know We'd be delighted to offer assistance to build confidence in using the functionality. ### 27. The best way to engage with your team regularly, understanding them as a whole person. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jackie R. | Head Of Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** Engaging, ease of use, platform for success **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** I don't dislike anything about OpenBlend. **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** Builds engaged teams, keeps them focused on their goals and sets clear expectations with regular feedback. Everyone is focused on company objectives and how they play a part in achieving them. ### 28. Feedback **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vicky c. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2023 **What do you like best about OpenBlend?** useful to have an online tool good to see how many people habe progressed conversations etc **What do you dislike about OpenBlend?** System is too complicated Most users dislike it there is just too much in there **What problems is OpenBlend solving and how is that benefiting you?** gives us an online tool **Official Response from Anna Rasmussen:** > Hi Vicky, Thank you for your feedback. We’re really saddened to hear this is your experience with OpenBlend. I will reach out to you separately to set up a time to discuss all of your points. I’m sure that we can improve your experience very quickly. 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