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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 do you maintain your culture with a remote workforce?
With large numbers of people working from home during the global pandemic, how can you maintain business continuity in your culture, your people and your processes? Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo look at this issue, as well as the impact that technology is playing...
Crisis management for HR teams
With Europe at the epicentre of the current global pandemic and with every human being on the planet affected in some way or another by what is happening, the team at LACE Partners wanted to reflect with you on what we see as the impact on HR teams not only in the UK,...
People_tech 2020 – emerging trends
Aaron Alburey and Emma Leonis provide an overview of some of the latest trends emerging in the HR tech space, as well as some of the various emerging tech currently out there in the marketplace. This is the first of a series of webinars hosted by LACE Partners in...
Are your line managers good ‘people’ managers?
We all know what it feels like to be managed well, but how many of us have been trained to be better people managers? How many companies have effective processes in place to help line managers become better people managers? Cathy Acratopulo from LACE Partners shares...
Artificial intelligence – how will it impact HR in 2020?
With artificial intelligence becoming an ever-more intensive debate amongst the HR community with each passing month, we decided to reach out to one of our partners – global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright – to get some more information about the impact it is having in...
Is HR trying to be the ‘Jack of all trades’?
Is HR the 'Jack of all trades'? Emma Leonis and Chris Howard from LACE Partners explore one of the key themes from the HR on the Offensive whitepaper, most notably whether HR tries to take on too much and therefore is unable to focus on the core strategic business...
In the Spotlight – HR’s rapid pandemic response
Maire Sloman from Colt talks to Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews from the Guild of HR Professionals about her teams response to the global pandemic, how HR in general has evolved and the lessons we can all take as we look to exit this pandemic period....
How will AI and blockchain affect my HR Team in 2020?
How will AI and blockchain impact HR teams in 2020? How much do you need to know about and what’s on the horizon? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners provides a quick overview, as well as some of the practical ways in which these two very different technologies will...
Here’s why you need to ask whether you have ‘people’ managers or ‘line’ managers
I was in the pub the other day with a friend of mine. He works in the charity sector and was recounting his challenges with his current line manager. She’d been somebody who had been in the organisation for between six to eight years and it was the first company she’d...
Feedback from Oracle OpenWorld
Last week Oracle hosted its annual OpenWorld conference in London and as a tech agnostic HR consultancy, LACE Partners met with key leaders in Oracle’s HCM team to understand the latest developments and updates that Oracle have in store from its customers. As an HR...
Launch podcast – is HR the jack of all trades?
Does HR try to be all things to all people? Is that hindering HR’s ability to be successful? Do HR need to focus on core business priorities? Emma Leonis from LACE Partners talks about some of the core priorities that HR Directors have spoken to LACE Partners about....
Top tips for implementing your HR tech project
Pip Anderson from LACE Partners gives some insights into the process each HR team should go through when implementing HR tech, including what should be considered and what LACE Partners does to support the process. https://youtu.be/8c_GYQFEUkU
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