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...
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What legal duty of care do employers have post covid-19?
How much of what the government has set out for returning to work are 'rules' and how much are 'guidelines' for HR teams and employers to deliver on? What happens to those people with childcare arrangements that are concerned with going back to work? ...
In the Spotlight – Episode 3 – ‘Remote workplace’ with Paul Hucknall
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...
What will the office of the future look like?
What will the office of the future look like when everybody returns back to work? Will there be creative and news ways of utilising space? Will businesses need as much space? How can you social distance in a lift designed to get 20 people in it and up to the 20th...
In the Spotlight – Episode 2 – Peter Cheese
In the second episode of the 'In the Spotlight' series from the Guild of HR Professionals, Peter Cheese, CEO of the CIPD, talks about how HR needs to position the 'human' at the centre of the business after the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to subside. HR needs to come...
How will you retain your business’ remote workers after the lockdown?
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 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...
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...
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...
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...









