Employee experience (EX) isn’t about just making employees feel great at work; it’s about driving business value. A growing body of research shows that positive EX not only enhances the well-being of employees but also drives value by attracting top talent, boosting...
In an ongoing environment of rapid change and economic uncertainty, the pressure on Chief People Officers (CPOs) and HR leaders to deliver bottom-line value through attracting and retaining critical talent has never been greater. While we continue to teeter on the...
Why does the Chief People Officer (CPO) need to operate with two distinctive ‘hats’? What are those ‘hats’ and how important is it to get the balance right? In a recent discussion at LACE HQ, Cathy Acratopulo and Debbie Mitchell two of our people strategy experts...
At a time in which we are seeing plenty of media coverage around counteroffers like the CIPD’s summer Labour Market Outlook, which was widely reported in the HR press, in today’s blog we thought we would take some time to look at the root cause of the reason – are...
At LACE we’re often talking to Payroll teams about the latest developments and, as part of the regular set of Payroll community events we run, there are common themes that often emerge. Today’s blog looks in a little more detail about one of those themes, which is why...
In the third of our series of webinars focused on avoiding buyer’s remorse with your HR technology, some of our experienced LACE team hosted Daniel Balshaw from Oracle, as we looked to answer some of the key challenges that teams face when trying to effectively define...
Tiffany Nayler Consultant What is it like to work at LACE Partners? We’ve got a regular series of blogs in which we talk to different LACErs to find out. Today we talk to Tiffany Nayler, who's just joined LACE as a Consultant. What has your experience joining...
Earlier this year we spoke to well-known and respected learning and development expert Donald Taylor, who publishes the L&D Global Sentiment Survey each year, to get an insight in to ‘what’s hot’ and ‘what’s not’ in the L&D space, based on his survey of over...
On a recent episode of our podcast HR on the Offensive, LACErs Chris Howard and David Pacifico had a chat with Maggie Spong, the former Global Head of Talent Acquisition at AstraZeneca and Roche, about boosting the talent acquisition process and delivering a...
We’ve seen (and written about) a number of articles in the press recently focusing on Protirees and other inactive workers, and discussing their desire or business’ need for them to return to work, including this recent article in The Times ‘Why Britain’s absent army...
LACErs Chris Howard and Evan Wynne have recently invited Deirdre O’Shea, Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the University of Limerick, to our podcast HR on the Offensive, to give an academic perspective on the state of wellbeing in...
It was great to have so many people attend the first of our Summer Series on buyer's remorse in HR technology. The first webinar was on 'What are the causes of Buyers' remorse?', which is now available on-demand here or you can subscribe to the series here. Joined...
In late June, around 20 members of the People and Workforce community gathered for a dinner and shared experiences and lessons-learned from their organisations. In this blog we cover some of the discussion topics and views shared by the attendees. People...
Recently some members of the LACE team took part in the Evanta CHRO Summit in London, bringing together just under 100 CHRO/CPOs from a wide variety of industry sizes and sectors. Today’s blog focuses on the boardroom discussion we were asked to lead on, which focused...
How focused are businesses on the influence and importance of middle managers? Are we giving them the enough focus, to enable them to have a positive impact on their teams, the business and our overall experience of work? Middle managers are the connection between...
