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In the spotlight
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.
How can HR teams use data more effectively to show its value?
Chris from LACE Partners is joined by Jig Ramji, Head of Talent at the London Stock Exchange, to talk about the importance of HR teams using data to evidence their decision making and delivering ROI to the people function. Jig talks about challenges of businesses who...
In the Spotlight – HR Guild Podcast – Episode 1 – Danny Harmer
This first episode of 'In the Spotlight' series featured Danny Harmer, Chief People Officer from Aviva, talking about her experiences during the COVID lockdown of 2020, having joined Aviva during the pandemic. ...
How important should coaching be during the current crisis?
What are the common challenges that leadership teams are facing and what coaching support do they need? Do HR Directors need to focus more on themselves in getting coaching support? Jessica Raby from Jess Raby Associates talks to Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners....
HR teams – what compliance systems do you have in place during the current global pandemic?
HR teams: Have you reviewed, understood and communicated the regulations, compliance systems and challenges that have appeared as a result of the global pandemic? In step nine of our 12-point plan Max Bailey and Kathleen Raftery talk through the questions HRDs need to...
What leadership behaviours are you exhibiting during the current crisis?
In the latest LACE Partners video, Rachel Mawson and Celine Haffner talk about the change in leadership behaviours needed during the current global pandemic, as well as giving some tips and key points that leaders need to think of to support their teams whilst working...
What lessons have you learned from the Coronavirus global pandemic?
You may not have the time right now to get some headspace to be looking at what lessons could have been learned by your business, but when you do, it will be important for HR to be the facilitators of conducting this process. Look at the data, the evidence, what the...
What is your wellbeing strategy for your remote workforce?
How can you maintain the wellbeing of your workforce with so many working remotely? What is the key to an effective wellbeing strategy? Celine Haffner and Emma Leonis give some insight in the seventh of our 12-point plan for crisis management, designed to help HR...
Do you have a transition plan in place?
On 21st April we ran a webinar called Creating the ‘new normal’. During the webinar we asked the senior HR professionals who attended – over 80 that took part – whether they had a transition plan in place to rebuild their workforce as the recovery gets underway. 89%...
How are you creatively engaging your employees?
Step six in LACE Partners' 12-point plan looks at how HR teams can creatively engage employees who could potentially all be sat at home right now. Who owns the role of engagement in a business? Emma Leonis and Celine Haffner discuss. ...
HR teams – have you got your new HR policies in place following the global crisis?
In the latest LACE Partners video Rachel Mawson and Celine Haffner talk about step five in our 12-point crisis management plan for HR teams. This step involves new policies - do you have new HR policies in place to deal with issues such as remote working, etc, in the...
How effective is your digital learning platform in the current climate?
How effective is your digital learning platform and how much are you utilising it in the current climate? With some businesses using digital learning to re-skill employees in light of the Covid-19 global pandemic, or with furloughed employees able to undertake...
HR teams – do you have your recovery plan in place for after the crisis?
Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo provide a quick overview of step four in a 12-step crisis management plan for HR teams during the current Covid-19 crisis. In this video they talk recovery planning and ask you the question: "do you have your modelling in place for...
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