Our latest thinking and thought leadership
Here you can find our latest thought leadership, blogs, webinars, podcasts and videos. Use the filters below to browse our insights based on topic, or format. If you have a topic you’d like to suggest then get in contact with us today.
In the spotlight
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.
Less stress HRIS - Part three: Beyond launch
Part three of our Less stress series focuses towards optimising your HR technology system.
Optimal payroll starts with the foundations
Laying the foundations for an optimal Payroll function.
Make sure your people are engaged with their employee development tool
In January David from our team was asked to join a panel of experts in a HR Magazine webinar looking at how businesses can leverage the right development tools to give the best possible development for their people. The team discussed a wide variety of issues, such as...
Home hybrid working: Is it a productivity ‘silver bullet’?
In this three-part series, Tim Ringo from our team considers whether home and hybrid working is the ‘silver bullet’ for greater productivity that many purport it to be – and what that might mean for your organisation’s working practices. The COVID19 pandemic was the...
Flexible working the new norm
Flexible working is here to stay. What can organisations do to strike the right balance with hybrid working? Chris and Chris Horton discuss the ongoing challenges with flexible working with Olga Needham, Senior HR Director at Tokyo Electron Europe. One of these...
Protirement: Is the UK Government about to redefine ‘retirement’?
In one of our latest pieces, Tim Ringo from our team takes a look at a recent article in The Times that focused on a government campaign to bring over-50's out of retirement, assessing the impact for businesses. Could this be a talent pool that businesses can...
2023 in HR: It’s going to be a big year for….
What are the top five trends we are expecting for HR in 2023? We are facing a tough year with complex economic and geopolitical challenges and continuing shifts in working life. In this week's blog we hear from the LACE team about their predictions for HR teams for...
The evolution of line manager capability post-pandemic
The pandemic has shifted what good people management looks like as now managers need to consider both hybrid and in office workers. Success in people management requires certain traits, such as empathy and inspiration, which cannot be taught. Chris and Kat Bernardes...
How could payroll evolve beyond borders in 2023 and beyond?
On 19th and 20th January some of our team at LACE will be joining the fabulous team at Neeyamo for their hybrid event 'Evolve Beyond Borders', which will feature a wealth of industry speakers talking all things the future of payroll. Chris Kirby talks to Chris Howard...
Life @ LACE – Laura Calderbank
Laura Calderbank 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 Laura Calderbank, who joined LACE as a Consultant in 2021. Talk to us about your experience...
Transformative ideas for digital talent acquisition
To round off the year, we’ve been focusing on the trends, topics and discussion points that have crystallised around our One Big Thing White Paper. The paper covers the myriad topics swirling around for Chief People Officers (CPOs) as key focus areas for 2023 and into...
Is your payroll evolving beyond borders?
This special edition of the HR on the Offensive podcast features an overview of an event being run by our friends at Neeyamo, who are running an event in January called 'Evolve Beyond Borders'. Today's podcast features Chris Howard and Chris Kirby from LACE, quizzing...
What innovations have payroll providers delivered in 2022?
In this week's blog LACE Partners consultant Alex Oliver summarises what innovations in payroll 2022 has seen for key industry players. As a technology-agnostic business we make it our business to keep our finger to the pulse of all shifts so we can best advise our...
Five years at LACE, five lessons learned
In our latest 60 seconds video, our Brand and Communications Lead - Eve Edmonds discusses her milestone five years at LACE and what she has learned along the way. Step out of your comfort zone, resilience and utilise your unique selling point, read about this and more...
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