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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.
Unlocking the power of digital adoption analytics
In this week’s blog we speak to Matt Sturman, Senior Technical Consultant at AppLearn about the findings of their latest whitepaper; ‘Understanding Digital Adoption Analytics’. In our recent HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Matt (which you can listen to here)....
Consumer Vs Colleague Experience – are they really that different?
Our partners Applaud recently launched a whitepaper entitled ‘The Future of HR: Employee experience fuelled by consumer-grade technology’ and in the latest HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Luka spoke to Jordan Robinson about some of the key themes. What did the...
How can HR get better at using its people analytics data?
What lessons has the last 18 months taught HR teams when it comes to getting better at analysing their people data and analytics? What impact with predictive analytics have in future? We reflect on all of these questions in this blog summarising the webinar we ran...
Why is digital transformation so high on HR leaders’ ‘to do’ lists?
What is the highest priority for HR leaders in 2021 and beyond? Why can technology be such an area of frustration for employees, from an EX perspective? Why are so many businesses looking to increase the number of HR systems they have in place? We look at this and...
How does HR get its head into the Cloud?
This blog summarises the key points from our recent webinar which focused on the ways in which organisations can best prepare themselves for their move to the Cloud. Max Bailey, Aaron Alburey, from LACE Partners, were joined by Jo Munday (UK Head of People...
Strategic partnership focused on employee experience announced
The effect of the last 18 months for HR teams and wider business in terms of people strategy has been clear for everyone to see. During the global pandemic organisations needed to shift their workers from tradition environments to more remote ones and whilst that was...
Getting better with data: The time is now for HR – webinar
In partnership with Ceridian, on 14th July 2021 LACE Partners held a webinar looking at the increasing value that HR teams are placing on using people data and analytics to evidence their decision making and improve productivity, as well as the impact the global...
HR strategy Vs People strategy – What is the difference?
This week’s blog sees our co-founder and MD Cathy Acratopulo and Director Chris Horton de-mystify the difference between a People Strategy and an HR Strategy, as well as discussing how HR Directors can articulate and operationalise their strategies over time. HR...
What challenges are HR leaders faced with?
Chris Howard is joined by Emma Leonis from LACE to discuss some of the challenges HR leaders are faced with, such as, 'How do you deliver employee-centric services given geographic challenges?' and 'How do you create a one-team culture in HR?' This podcast is a...
How do you build your business case for changing your payroll?
What are the biggest challenges that companies face when thinking about changing their payroll provider? How do you build your business case for change? Adam Morris and Chris Kirby from LACE Partners discuss some of the challenges they have seen from some of the...
How to get better at leveraging data
Barry Green is a specialist in data and worked as a Chief Data Officer for HSBC, Bank of Ireland and Allianz Insurance. In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast he spoke to us about a book he has written – Data Means Business: Level up your organisation to adapt,...
Are businesses doing enough to adopt digital employee experience?
Watch our latest 60 second video in which Duncan Casemore from Applaud talks about their digital employee experience report, which looked at what more businesses could be doing to adopt digital employee experience and some of the trends they have spotted from an EX...
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