In the latest LACE Partners webinar we look at how businesses have needed to quickly adapt and change their approach to digital employee experience with so many of their workers forced to work from home during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Together with Emma Leonis,...
How well does your HR team deliver successful diagnosis for its challenges, rather than retrospectively finding solutions? Is your HR function seen as the ‘police’ of your business and what can you do to avoid that? Chris from LACE Partners talks to Steve Othen from...
Wendy Muirhead from Ceridian talks about how they strive to drive innovation in their business through the culture that they have developed. As a technology-focused business, the expectation is that Ceridian are innovative in their culture, but how do they achieve...
At LACE Partners we're really proud of the collaborative culture that has developed since we began in 2014. As a team we like to describe ourselves as a big 'family' and as part of an ongoing series we've been running over the last couple of years, today's blog is a...
How do you make the world of work more engaging for your people? How do you bring your workplaces back into sync with better engagement and how can you break down the existing constructs of the workplace to improve the overall efficiency of your business? Chris talks...
In such a time of uncertainty and both personal and professional challenges, how can HR teams keep their line managers positively engaged, especially when so many are remote managing (possibly for the first time)? Danny Harmer from Aviva and Steph Davies from...
What legal considerations do you need to make when bringing back furloughed workers? How much notice do you need to give to inform a furloughed worker of a return date? What can those workers do when on leave and what are the logistics of part-time working? What about...
In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners sat down (virtually) with Paul Griffin, Head of Employment at Norton Rose Fulbright, to talk about some of the challenges HR teams are facing from a legal perspective as organisations return...
How do you adapt the workplace to meet your colleagues' needs in this current climate? Do you have a hybrid wellbeing offering? How do you make home-based workers feel fully included in wellbeing programmes? What are your plans for holiday rollover and how do you deal...
Master of the Guild Paul Hucknall talks to Chris Howard and Annette Andrews about how his business - Quilter - has adapted quickly to moving from an office-based environment to a remote workplace, touching on policies, support, but also how their leaders have adapted...
Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners talk through the considerations that HR teams need to be thinking of when they bring back their workers from working from home, but also how they can maintain momentum, given that the world is becoming a very different place to the...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...