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Optimal payroll starts with the foundations
Laying the foundations for an optimal Payroll function.
The efficiency paradox
Boosting productivity in the face of economic constraints.
Less stress HRIS - Part two: Beyond basecamp
Learn the essential steps for setting up your HRIS for long-term success.
Less stress HRIS - Part one: The road to the Cloud
Our latest whitepaper, 'Less stress HRIS - The road to the Cloud,' will help you prepare for a successful HRIS implementation.
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Is it finally time to invest in corporate alumni relations to support business growth?
Talent featured heavily in our ‘One Big Thing’ whitepaper and campaign we ran in late 2022 and in to Q1 2023 this year. We are speaking to organisations regularly about how to solve their talent problems, and one often overlooked solution sits within alumni relations...
HR press: what’s the word?
In this episode host Chris speaks to Kay Phelps founder of PR in HR which topics she is seeing getting the most coverage in the HR press – and which areas are not. PR in HR are a specialist PR agency working with organisations daily to get noticed and have their own...
How can HR Shared Services deliver the best employee experience in a post-pandemic hybrid working environment?
We’ve just held the latest of our regular HR Shared Services community forums and, as usual, it was an invaluable opportunity to find out the HRSS zeitgeist in the new-look post-pandemic hybrid workspace. A host of HRSS professionals joined us at the forum and...
How do you avoid making your employee value proposition a ‘tick box’ exercise?
In the fourth and final one of our 'fireside chat' videos, Chris, Tim, Alice and Chris talk all things employee value proposition (EVP). How do you avoid it just becoming another 'tick box' exercise and ensure that it is an ever-evolving, ever-improving, fundamental...
How can you remove barriers to great employee experience?
In this episode our podcast host Chris and LACE Partners co-founder and COO Cathy Acratopulo speak with Dave Page, co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Actual Experience. Built on 10 years of academic research, this technology analyses the way humans experience...
Why is hybrid working still something that keeps CPOs up at night?
In our third 'fireside chat video, Chris, Tim, Alice and Chris take some time to reflect on the second highest ranked 'one big thing' i.e. strategic issue that Chief People Officers (CPOs) are thinking that they would love to be able to fix if they could. Hybrid...
HR’s one big thing – focusing on solving the ‘talent’ question
In the second of our series of 'fireside chat' videos, Chris, Tim, Alice and Chris sit down to discuss one of the top three issues given to us by CPOs as being their 'one big thing' i.e. the biggest challenge that is keeping them up at night that - if they could -...
LACE Partners and Actual Experience develop strategic partnership to drive digital transformation challenges
LACE Partners and Actual Experience are joining together in partnership to support Chief People Officers (CPOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) successfully deliver digital transformation within their businesses. This partnership will bring together businesses...
Fireside chat – reflecting on HR’s ‘one big thing’
Last year we released our HR's 'one big thing' report, which looked at what the biggest strategic issues are for Chief People Officer's (CPOs) and, following a campaign in which we've looked in detail at the 'top three' key issues that CPOs said were keeping them up...
How relevant are the ‘One Big Thing’ themes in the digital adoption market?
Late in 2022 our team interviewed 30 CPOs from a variety of industries to determine what the “One Big Thing” keeping them up at night was. A lot has happened in the last three months and at the close of our campaign we were interested in getting a tech vendor’s...
Market pulse check: Seven common themes in People Analytics
What are the key trends in the people analytics space? Which challenges will be most significant moving forward? We recently tasked ourselves to find out. At the end of 2022 we interviewed People and Workforce Analytics leaders representing a range of...
Reflections on ‘HR’s One Big Thing’ – how has it changed?
Over the last three months our team have been drilling down into some of the most pressing concerns of Chief People Officers / Chief Human Resources Officers to find out what HR's 'One Big Thing’ is. We’ve run a host of events, podcasts, as well as blogs and short...
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