How has the covid-19 crisis impacted the search for leaders? How have views on leadership and identifying leaders changed during this time? Is 'trust' the new frontier for businesses when it comes to empowering their leaders and line managers? Which leaders have...
How do you adapt the workplace to meet your colleagues' needs in this current climate? Do you have a hybrid wellbeing offering? How do you make home-based workers feel fully included in wellbeing programmes? What are your plans for holiday rollover and how do you deal...
A recent McKinsey article reported that ‘we have vaulted five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption in a matter of around eight weeks’. With the event of Covid-19, workforces have suddenly been required to adapt to remote ways of working. Many need...
How much of what the government has set out for returning to work are 'rules' and how much are 'guidelines' for HR teams and employers to deliver on? What happens to those people with childcare arrangements that are concerned with going back to work? ...
Master of the Guild Paul Hucknall talks to Chris Howard and Annette Andrews about how his business - Quilter - has adapted quickly to moving from an office-based environment to a remote workplace, touching on policies, support, but also how their leaders have adapted...
Change is afoot! Business, and society at large, is on the cusp of a new and never seen before challenge; a challenge that will create unprecedented levels of uncertainty and will alter organisations as we know them. To navigate these stormy seas, businesses will need...
What will the office of the future look like when everybody returns back to work? Will there be creative and news ways of utilising space? Will businesses need as much space? How can you social distance in a lift designed to get 20 people in it and up to the 20th...
In the second episode of the 'In the Spotlight' series from the Guild of HR Professionals, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, talks about how HR needs to position the 'human' at the centre of the business after the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to subside. HR needs to come...
Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners talk through the considerations that HR teams need to be thinking of when they bring back their workers from working from home, but also how they can maintain momentum, given that the world is becoming a very different place to the...
Much has evolved since the Covid-19 global pandemic entered our lives. It feels like a lifetime ago but has only been a few short months. We have seen significant retrenchment and re-organisation at scale and pace, in businesses large and small, with many...
Step 10 of the LACE Partners 12-point crisis management plan for HR teams looks at what HR leaders need to be thinking of when thinking of the 'return to work' plan under the current coronavirus global pandemic. LACErs Chris Howard and Cathy Acratopulo talk through...
Chris from LACE Partners is joined by Jig Ramji, Head of Talent at the London Stock Exchange, to talk about the importance of HR teams using data to evidence their decision making and delivering ROI to the people function. Jig talks about challenges of businesses who...
This first episode of 'In the Spotlight' series featured Danny Harmer, Chief People Officer from Aviva, talking about her experiences during the COVID lockdown of 2020, having joined Aviva during the pandemic. ...
What are the common challenges that leadership teams are facing and what coaching support do they need? Do HR Directors need to focus more on themselves in getting coaching support? Jessica Raby from Jess Raby Associates talks to Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners....
HR teams: Have you reviewed, understood and communicated the regulations, compliance systems and challenges that have appeared as a result of the global pandemic? In step nine of our 12-point plan Max Bailey and Kathleen Raftery talk through the questions HRDs need to...