Thursday, 8 March 2018
International Women's Day 2018
For International Women's Day 2018, we are recognising a few women who inspire us...
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Monday, 29 January 2018
Open Blend is proud to be working with A+E Networks UK: Winners of Best Places To Work in TV 2018
A+E Networks UK is named the best place to work in TV in the UK by industry magazine Broadcast and takes on Open Blend to further improve the conversations between managers and their direct reports.
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Friday, 12 January 2018
What Home Alone can teach us about employee engagement.... (stick with me on this one!)
Christmas is upon us and everyone has a guilty pleasure at Christmas. For many born in the 1980’s-90’s, watching Home Alone would be it; without question, Macaulay Culkin’s most infamous work.
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Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Finding the Marginal Gains in your talent
Sir David Brailsford (former Performance Director of British Cycling) ‘professionalised’ the “aggregation of marginal gains.” He explained it as “the 1 per cent margin for improvement in everything you do.”...
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Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Introducing our new Head of Technology...
August is an exciting month for Open Blend as we are welcoming two new hires. The first to be interviewed is Head of Technology, James Milward..
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Monday, 13 March 2017
HR Magazine feature: "Ella's Kitchen on it's online leadership tool"
Open Blend featured in HR Magazine's March issue. A Q&A with Catherine Allen, HR Director at Ella's Kitchen, who have been using Open Blend since October 2015.
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Woman2Woman with Partners for Change Ethiopia
This International Women's Day on 8th March 2017 we invite you to do something very special....
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Thursday, 2 March 2017
Introducing our new Finance Director...
We are thrilled to introduce Alison Hylton-Potts as Finance Director at Open Blend. We asked her a few questions to get to know her a little better...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Your Perking Isn't Working...
There’s a new dance craze sweeping the nation.
Only kidding. But seriously, are we still throwing money at problems like retention, engagement and performance? 2016 was a year of enlightenment. We learnt a lot. We found out that Millennials are really hard to manage and engage and that (for the first time), they have overtaken Gen X to account for the largest percentage of today’s workforce. So what exactly do we know?
Only kidding. But seriously, are we still throwing money at problems like retention, engagement and performance? 2016 was a year of enlightenment. We learnt a lot. We found out that Millennials are really hard to manage and engage and that (for the first time), they have overtaken Gen X to account for the largest percentage of today’s workforce. So what exactly do we know?
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