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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.
Are you demonstrating your company values during Covid-19?
In the third video of a 12 point crisis management plan for HR teams, Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo talk about the importance of cultural congruence. Does your company demonstrate the values it says it lives by? Because if not, employees will be acutely aware...
Covid-19: are you asking yourself what happens next? You should be…
As we enter over a month of ‘lockdown’ in which confinement to homes is now the norm, many of us have found that what has transpired over the last month has involved people working harder, longer hours, trying desperately to ensure that we can maintain as much of our...
What are your emergency workforce plans during the Covid-19 crisis?
Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo give a quick overview of what HR Directors need to be thinking of when it comes to assessing your supply of the workforce in the current challenging global crisis brought about by Covid-19. This is part of our 12-point crisis...
Creating the new normal
This is the third webinar focused on the 12-point plan to support HR teams manage the current Covid-19 crisis with advice, guidance and examples of what other businesses are doing to manage risk in their business. This webinar focuses on looking forward asks what HR...
What are you doing about wellbeing in the current crisis?
What is your business doing about it's wellbeing strategy? What are other HR teams looking at right now? What will be the focus as we come out of the current global pandemic? The LACE Partners Team spoke to Annette Andrews, former Chief People Officer at Lloyds of...
The 12 point crisis management plan for HR professionals – strategic response
Step one in our 12-point plan for HR professionals sees Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo providing a very quick overview of what HR Directors should be thinking of to navigate the current crisis. The focus for this step is on what the strategic response should be...
How does HR know it’s making the right decisions during this crisis?
How can HR teams react appropriately to the current crisis brought about by Covid-19? Is HR the conscience of the business? What does the return to work plan look like? What will 'business as usual' look like when the crisis starts to subside? Chris from LACE Partners...
Are you doing enough to support and engage your people?
For many of us, it may feel as though the current lockdown and subsequent weeks of remote working have lasted a lifetime. The rapid pace of change that we have seen in a few short weeks has resulted in HR teams having to crisis manage in an environment that nobody saw...
Supporting and engaging your people in a crisis
During this current crisis brought about by the Covid-19 global pandemic, what are HR teams doing to ensure engagement of employees? How are businesses addressing the wellbeing of their workforce? What new policies need to be put in place? This webinar took place on...
What workforce planning strategies do you have in this crisis?
Workforce planning may not be new, but the environment we are currently operating in caused by the global pandemic is. Chris Howard and Charlie Donaldson, HR Transformation and HR Operations Lead, talk about why agility is needed more than ever from HR during this...
How is your HR function handling the current crisis?
Yesterday (Thursday 2nd April) we launched our first in a series of webinars which aim to provide support and guidance to HR teams across some very distinct areas. The main focus of our webinar yesterday – which you can watch an ‘on demand’ version of here – was on...
HR in a time of crisis – a 12 point plan
During a time of unprecedented crisis caused by the Covid-19 global pandemic, HR teams are facing a world in which the goalposts are constantly moving. This webinar which was held on Thursday 2nd April 2020 is the first of three webinars that LACE Partners run which...
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