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The Future of HR Shared Services – Becoming People and Solutions Experts
Chris and Emma from LACE Partners take a couple of minutes to talk through some of the key points raised from the white paper released in November 2020 from LACE Partners. The white paper looks at what skills HR Shared Services professionals will need to succeed in...
Using people analytics to determine your future workforce strategy
How many businesses – and HR teams by extension – have been able to properly leverage data and analytics to drive productivity since lockdown? Has there been a tendency for some organisations to over elaborate on the way they analyse their people performance data?...
In the Spotlight – How can you create a happy and productive organisation?
Doing things right or doing the right thing? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners and Co-host Annette Andrews from the HR Guild, talk to Stephanie Davies from Laughology and Founder of the National Happiness Awards, about how you can create a happy and productive...
Are your HR team viewed as the ‘HR police’?
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...
How can you inspire a culture of innovation within your organisation?
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...
Your people capabilities – how does HR up its game?
How capable is your HR function? What is stopping your team from reaching your strategic objectives? In 2019, LACE Partners spoke to a series of HRDs as part of the HR on the Offensive whitepaper and to follow on from the findings, Emma Leonis talks about the...
HR teams: Is your people data strategy a priority post Covid?
Max Bailey from LACE Partners talks about why HR teams and the importance of a people data strategy will be pushed to the forefront of businesses minds in the wake of the pandemic. https://youtu.be/H7y4ZvuY0wg Explore more insightful content here: How...
Life @ LACE – Pip Anderson
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...
From dissonance to resonance – get employees engaged and ‘in sync’
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...
How do you keep line managers positive and engaged?
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 considerations are you making for furloughed workers return or redundancy?
In the second of a two-part HR on the Offensive podcast with our partners Norton Rose Fulbright (you can read part one here), we discussed the issues of furlough and redundancy for HR teams and the businesses they operate within. Once again Cathy and Chris from LACE...
Bringing back furloughed workers: what do you need to know?
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 the Spotlight – Episode 5 – Andrew Wilkinson and Sally Talbot
How have businesses reacted to their resource plans during the global pandemic? How important will employer brand be post the current crisis? What creativity in resourcing has this global pandemic delivered? Andrew Wilkinson from Peoplescout and Sally Talbot from Per...
Have you identified your next generation of leaders?
How has the covid-19 crisis impacted the search for leaders? How have views on leadership and identifying leaders changed during this time? Is 'trust' the new frontier for businesses when it comes to empowering their leaders and line managers? Which leaders have...








