Recently we held the latest in a series of CPO forum events, hosted wonderfully by a fantastic team at Claridge’s. The event saw the return of a few long-standing friends of LACE, but we welcomed some new clients and new forum members into the mix. With far too many...
In this week's blog we hear from our very own Chris Horton, who tell us about the highlights and insights from the CIPD Festival of work. Buzzing with energy and ideas, not to mention quite a lot of people on a warm London day, there were approximately 10,000...
This week we are joined by Brian Murphy, Senior Director Employee Skilling at Microsoft, and Charles Jennings, Managing Director at Duntroon Consultants. Summarising a recent podcast about AI and the future of learning, this blog lays out the key takeaways from their...
Our latest HR Shared Services (HRSS) forum sparked loads of interesting debate about the issues that are front and centre right now. From the challenges of securing the next generation of talent to finally cracking hybrid working, we gained some fantastic insight from...
In May we hosted the latest of our regular payroll community forums. Senior Payroll professionals from a wide variety of industry sectors regularly join us to discuss everything from optimisation (when, how and how much?) to ownership and reach, debating the current...
At LACE, we constantly question the status quo and seek out ways to shake it up. This led us to launch our latest campaign on redefining workplace productivity, making it fit for purpose in a post-pandemic world. As part of this campaign, we recently hosted a...
In our weekly blogs, we’ve talked a lot about the different types of approaches businesses are taking to hybrid working. Each organisation is working through what is most relevant for them, as evidenced by our ‘silver bullet’ series we produced at the beginning of...
We recently ran our latest Chief People Officer (CPO) forum, in which we discussed a manner of different topics from CPOs from a variety of industry sectors and sizes. The discussion was great and included fascinating debate around who should own employee experience,...
In our latest blog we speak with Dr Tracy Brower. Sociologist, author and VP of Workplace Insights at Steelcase. Dr Brower talks with Lace Partners’ Chris Howard and Chris Horton about the complexities surrounding the concepts of productivity and happiness at work....
In this week’s blog we hear from published author and LACE Client Executive Director Tim Ringo about why we should stay positive about life, work and moving forwards in the global economy. He tells us what we have to be optimistic about in a time of relentless change...
Our latest Talent Dinner gathered key players to discuss the challenges faced by HR and Talent leaders and, of course, to come up with some solutions. Here’s what we discussed, learned and absorbed. We regularly run networking dinners and have a number of different...
As the big tech firms scramble to try to deliver the next evolution of how AI will impact businesses following the rapid rise to prominence of ChatGPT from Tech firm OpenAI, HR professionals that we speak to are starting to ask us how the application of it could help...
During 2022 we launched a campaign looking at HR’s ‘one big thing’ and one of the biggest challenges Chief People Officers (CPOs) said they were facing was the talent attraction and retention issue. This issue has been a longstanding one for organisations. ...
In this week’s blog we ask our founders Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo what the key objectives and responsibilities of a Chief People Officer (CPO) or Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) are. With combined decades of experience working closely to these roles...
In March this year we launched our new People and Workforce Analytics service offering, which has been set up to support the people analytics community in driving forward the value it can deliver to businesses through leveraging people analytics. To launch the service...
