How has the global pandemic shifted businesses approach to financial wellbeing? What more can employers be doing to support employees? We explore this in a recent podcast where we discussed a whitepaper the team at Wagestream have produced, which you can download...
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How can you solve your productivity puzzle?
Tim Ringo, author of 'Solving the Productivity puzzle' joins Aaron and Chris from LACE to discuss how businesses can solve their own challenges with the productivity of their own people through giving autonomy, purpose and mastery to their own people. They also...
What is the Resilience Factor for CPOs?
In this week's podcast, we speak to Zellis about their recent report 'The Resilience Factor: CPOs - Post-COVID Boardroom Insights 2021'. We discuss what changes businesses have made and how that has impacted Chief People Officers in their roles. How does resilience...
Can the four-day workweek really work?
In today’s blog Evan from our team took a look at the impact of the proposed pilot of a four-day work week will have in the UK. Can it be more productive than the traditional five-day work week? What are the implications? How will businesses need to adapt their people...
Stay interviews – what’s making your employees leave and, conversely, what’s making them stay?
In this week's blog we look at why employees may quit a job but also what makes other employees want to stay. Stay interviews are a great way to get that type of information. Should your business implement stay interviews, or does it depend on your pre-existing level...
How can you create an outcomes-driven performance culture?
In the latest podcast Chris and Emma Leonis-Hughes talk to Appraisd Founder Roly Walter about how to create a an outcomes-driven performance culture. The trio discuss the distinction between an 'output-based culture' and an 'outcome-driven' culture - How does one...
What’s hot on an employee experience specialist’s agenda right now?
What are employee experience specialists thinking about right now? Reflecting on a community forum ran by LACE Partners and Applaud, Aaron from LACE and Katie from Applaud discuss some of the hot topics in the EX space....
Benchmarking: Friend or foe of the HR Team?
We are often asked by clients or HR teams in our community about benchmarking and specifically about providing data on how HR teams are performing in their ‘space’. Today’s blog is an overview of some of the key considerations that teams should be thinking of when...
What should be on every HRDs agenda in 2022?
At LACE, we’ve taken a look through an HR lens to explore the key trends shaping the year ahead after two years of significant change. We asked our team to share their top predictions for what HR teams should focus on in 2022—find them below! What do you think? Get in...
Benchmarking: HR’s friend or foe?
What should you benchmark? Why should you benchmark? What are others benchmarking? And what are the cautionary tales? We explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Chris Howard and Cathy Acratopulo from the LACE Partners team....
Organisational design in 2022 – what should we expect?
Earlier this year we were asked to give our view on a perspective that an optimal number of employees per line manager was between eight to ten. But with leaders not in the same room, should this be reduced? We reflected on this in a piece featured the HR Director...
How to make performance management more relevant and accessible
What is continuous performance management? What benefit does it have for employees? What are the challenges of not getting it right? We explore this and more with Roly Walter from Appraisd, who talks us through his background and organisation. Find out more about...
How should HR respond to ‘The Great Resignation’?
In this week’s blog LACE Senior Manager Luka Winterborne and MD Cathy Acratopulo respond to one of the hottest topics in HR at the moment: ‘The Great Resignation’. Read on to learn what questions every HR Director should be asking themselves and why your employee...
Life at LACE: Onboarding in a flexible working world
,This week’s blog is a ‘Life at LACE’ piece from one of our newest hires about their experience of being hired and onboarded in a post-pandemic flexible working world and at the start of the colleague lifecycle with an employer. Luka Winterborne compares his recent...
AI in HR: Accelerating the power of your people – what you need to know
How can businesses find the balance between AI and human connection? What do we think the future of AI will look like in HR? In this week’s blog our host Romy Hobson speaks to LACE Partners tech advisory experts Aaron Alburey and Racheal Capel to discuss where we are...