iOpener Insights

Doing difficult things often makes us happy at work My husband Chris and I recently joined a local sailing club and bought a sailing dinghy. Whilst...

Trust is vitally important to organizations, so why do many seem not to care? Several studies evidence that the trust citizens have in institutions...

How to build capability and capacity in others Leaders are increasingly stretched at work; their long days accompanied by a feeling that they’ve...

Happiness at Work drives engagement Let’s lay out our position right from the start. There’s no doubt about it that engagement and Happiness at Work...

How what we think of as a ‘good employee’ has changed over time Obedience, diligence and expertise can no longer be the attributes that define a good...

Work-related feedback is a dynamic process. It has the potential to enable employees to appreciate how they can achieve more, and the potential to...

Giving feedforward in the iOpener way Recently we brought a mix of iOpener consultants and employees old and new together to take part in an internal...

I was flicking through the sleeve notes for Dolly Parton’s latest album as a passenger on a long drive to York recently when I was reminded of a...

Work like a human, not like a machine If we send a human to do a machine’s job it is very likely that the human will do it worse. Beyond the physical...

Debussy said that “music is the space between the notes”. Similarly in coaching, the real work gets done in the space between the coach-client...