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HR Shared Services Trends 2026 Report
Our latest bi-annual survey of the HR shared services marketplace, with perspectives from CPOs, GBS and HR shared service leaders across 45 global businesses.
Business restructuring. What it takes in practice.
How to deliver change at pace and ensure it performs beyond go-live.
Becoming skills-powered
How to build a skills-based organisation that drives agility, performance and talent mobility.
From implementer to influencer
Discover how HR is evolving from a reactive support function to a strategic influencer in business transformation.
What strategies can L&D teams use to cultivate effective learning and development?
We welcome on Gary Stringer Content Marketing Manager at learning platform HowNow, once again to discuss two article that they have produced which analysed successful L&D strategies and their outcomes. The first article looks at what your L&D content must...
Exploring learning and development trends: Insights from the L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2023
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...
What factors contribute to the gender pay gap in the workplace?
In this podcast Chris invites on guest Aisling Teillard, Chief Customer Officer at beqom. Beqom is a company that specialises in compensation management software. Their platform is designed to help organisations manage and streamline their employee compensation,...
The shifting change and adoption mindset to scale people analytics
In the third of our videos featuring Olly Britnell, Global Head of People Analytics at Philip Morris International, Julian and Olly delve in to the key learnings he has found in his career when it comes to generating business buy in for people analytics, from a change...
The art of talent acquisition: Creating a world-class candidate experience
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...
Buyer’s remorse webinar: Why are employees not using the system?
In the second of our summer series set of webinars, Chris Horton was joined by Aaron Alburey and Jess Herniman from LACE, as well as Caroline Keefe, as the panel discussed how to drive greater user adoption when you have started to embed a new HR technology platform...
Is the grass always greener? Why perspective matters in employee experience
In the latest episode of the HR on the Offensive podcast, host Chris and fellow LACErs Ed Sparkes, Romy Hobson, and Liz Bailey delve into a discussion about the relationship between corporate culture and organisational performance. What is the significance of...
The importance of engaging stakeholders in people analytics
In the third part of our video series focused on the common trends in people analytics (you can read our whitepaper here), Julian from LACE once again talks to Olly Britnell from Philip Morris International, about why getting stakeholder buy in for People Analytics...
The inactive workforce: Revitalising our talent pools
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...
Charity spotlight: Change Please
This podcast episode features guest Cemal Ezel, founder of Change Please, a non-profit which focuses on creating meaningful and sustainable solutions to address homelessness and unemployment. Cemal tells Chris and David Pacifico about his journey and the ethos of...
The biggest challenges facing people analytics experts – Olly Britnell
In the latest of our series of videos featuring people analytics experts, Julian Holmes from LACE Partners sits down with Olly Britnell, Global Head of People Analytics at Philip Morris International to discuss some of the key themes from our whitepaper - Market pulse...
How does poor wellbeing impact organisations?
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...
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