Breaking the Silence: Why Businesses Should Shout About Their Investment In Effective Leadership
A key factor in high-performing organisations, effective leaders inspire and motivate their teams to achieve common...
Your ducks are in a row – but are they the right ducks?
The Importance of Aligning Strategic Priorities Few people would disagree that if you employ people and pay them to do...
Employee burn-out: Is weak capacity planning putting your business at risk?
Employee burn-out is a trending hot topic in the business media, with numerous surveys* citing it in staff attrition,...
Cognitive Diversity and The Echo Chamber Trap
Is a lack of cognitive diversity holding partnership performance back? It was Matthew Syed in his book, Rebel Ideas,...
Winning the tech game in legal practice
After a shaky start, the threat to legal practices from the Big Four accountancy firms has been gathering considerable...
Moving beyond team working to become a community of practice
Moving beyond team working to become a community of practice Organisations have invested significant attention into...
Effective Leadership: Emotional Intelligence in Accountancy
"To the casual observer, emotions and accountancy can seem like unrelated concepts from two separate worlds. But to...
Tactics for effective problem solving for business leaders
When faced with problems, we may be guilty of making decisions and coming up with solutions too quickly. Who can blame...
Effective decision making in leadership: a science, or a feeling?
Imagine the leader of a successful business decided to merge with another business. When probed why, they expressed...
Why are leadership development interventions failing?
Leadership development is big business. There is an obscene number of players offering programmes promising to impart...
All business problems are the result of ineffective leadership
All of your business problems are caused by ineffective leadership: the gap between the type of leadership that...
Effective Change Leadership: Time for change?
Effective Change Leadership Time for change? In our Effective Leadership in Action workshop this month, we looked at...
Goal setting for 2022
Goal setting during difficult times The impending dawn of a New Year is notoriously a time where some begin planning...
How to develop team resilience
There is a misconception that a resilient team is a collection of resilient individuals – but people don’t function in...
How to improve business performance
There are several tactics you can employ if you wish to bolster your business’s performance and become a market leader...
Is your business equipped to soar to new heights?
A case study around purpose, aligned expertise and mutual empowerment Fostering purpose, aligned expertise and mutual...
Is your business ready to grow?
There is a growing trend of businesses rapidly evolving and growing as we regain a semblance of normality after being...
Do we need to be more intelligent about emotions?
Emotional Intelligence is a term that is in danger of being over-used and, as a result, over-simplified or used in the...
Bring me problems!
Leading problem solving and innovation A few of us probably remember the ‘power management’ phrase of the...
Porsche or Jaguar: what’s your leadership journey?
As lockdown restrictions ease, there is an emerging energy in the air. Beyond the smell of barbeques and pints being...
New Client Solutions Manager joins Blackmore Four
As part of our continued growth and commitment to delivering high-impact consultancy, we’re delighted to announce that...
Developing team resilience: the why and how
Resilience: the ability of a person, system or organisation to respond to or recover readily from a crisis or...
Digital Marketing Degree Apprenticeship
These are exciting times at Blackmore Four. We are coming to the end of our fourth year of trading and have a great...
The strategic narrative
A branding exercise or key component for organisation effectiveness? ‘If you want to build a ship, don’t drum...
Traction in times of change
During times of internal stress and hostility, how can you achieve change management traction? We’ve partnered with...
How to lead a high-performing team
In the final piece in our series for Global Banking & Finance Review, Matthew Emerson looks at how to lead a high...
How to be an effective change leader
What does it take to be an effective change leader? At a time where effective change is now more important than ever,...
Should you reward high performance? If so, how?
In the second of our series with Global Banking and Finance review, we look at whether you should reward high...
Four priorities of organisation design
In our last article, Organise for outcomes, structure for success, we covered the evolving need for organisation...
Stay safe…socially distanced of course
Matt Lovell gives us his take on language that’s entered the mainstream since COVID-19 It feels like a long time ago,...
What does high-performing teams mean?
Kick start your 2021 with a read of our latest published article in Global Banking & Finance Review. This article...
Organisational Effectiveness is the key says Matthew Emerson on BV-TV Show
Join Matthew Emerson and Malcolm Gallagher on BV-TV Leadership Matters Show as they discuss how, in our new and...
As seen in Real Business – The Birth of Leadership Needs Analysis
Blackmore Four is passionate about the critical role that leadership plays in any organisation and the necessity of...
We spend more on home entertainment (Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc) than we do on learning new skills. Why?
We are at a unique point in time. The global pandemic is having a seminal - possibly permanent - impact on our lives,...
Organise for outcomes, structure for success
At a time when change, agility and adaptability are seen as the key ingredients for survival, let alone success, it...
Does how you dress effect the way you work?
So, who really cares about what people wear when they work and why am I writing about it? In the last year, my own...
R.I.P. Leadership Development Programmes
The thought of leadership development programmes may conjure up many different images depending on our experience;...
Purpose, Planning and People = Performance!
There is nothing more important right now than re-establishing the core of your business; why do you exist, where are...
Is an office really necessary?
Is an office really necessary? We have proven that productivity is not significantly impacted by working virtually. ...
Debunking engagement myths in the midst of Covid-19
Matthew Emerson writes for People Management on the topic of employee engagement and how to improve this amidst...
What kind of leadership does your business need?
When was the last time you or your company’s leadership team asked that question? At Blackmore Four, we are...
Organisational Effectiveness: establishing competitive difference
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” Maya Angelou Do you know how...
When you say Leadership, do you really mean Management?
We thought it might be useful to document our perspectives on what we think leadership is (and is not) and in what...
Interim leaders steady the ship: adaptable business models with outcomes in mind
Blackmore Four is delighted to have our article on interim leadership feature in Global Banking & Finance Review....
Matthew Emerson shares his top tips with Accountancy Today
Matthew Emerson writes for Accountancy Today on the topic of leading through uncertainty. What additional tips would...
New Business Operations Manager joins Blackmore Four team
Blackmore Four appoint new Operations Manager as part of major growth drive We are delighted to announce the...
Organisation Design: How does your organisation function?
Written by Nic Frank and Matthew Emerson Organisation design is more than just lines and labels or processes and...
What is Organisation Development and why is it important?
What is Organisation Development and why is it important? Written by Nic Frank and Matthew Emerson If you ask any...
What does Mutual Empowerment look like?
Sustaining business performance through growth: What does Mutual Empowerment look like? For companies that are going...
Developing Organisation Alignment
Sustaining business performance through growth: Developing Organisation Alignment For SMEs and larger businesses that...
New Business Development Manager joins Blackmore Four
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Matt Lovell into the newly-created role of Business Development...
The value of shared purpose
The value of shared purpose in business performance For SMEs and even larger, growing businesses, the challenge of...
Organisational Effectiveness: How effective is your organisation?
Do you know how effective your organisation is? If asked the question about organisational effectiveness and more...
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