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...
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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...
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 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...
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...
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....
In the Spotlight – Learnings from a new entrant in a senior HR position
Aaron and Annette from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Darren Cornish of Aviva about his transition in to the world of HR and the challenging first year he had in the function. They also discuss the value of peer-to-peer networking groups and the Guild's...
Building capability: It’s time HR put itself first
As part of our ongoing blog series focusing on some of the key findings from the HR on the Offensive whitepaper released in June 2019, Emma Leonis looks at one of the key elements of the report - building HR's capability. One of the most frequent challenges HR...
Kevin Green interview – Competitive People Strategy
Kevin Green, author of 'Competitive People Strategy' talks to LACE Partners' Chris Howard about some of the key takeaways from his book https://youtu.be/JD6kIH5xeTc
How much do you value people management?
Today’s blog is a follow on from a previous piece written by LACE Co-Founder Cathy Acratopulo after LACE Partners’ annual people_tech event in October. In the previous blog (which you can find here) Cathy talked about the capability of people managers, whether ’good...
HR on The Offensive – HR must ‘step out of the shadows’
HR needs to think the unthinkable and reinvent the very nature of what it does and why it does it. The HR profession is at a tipping point. Unprecedented turbulence, driven by tech innovation, hyper-competitiveness and market disruption, has created levels of...
Aaron Alburey – People_tech Interview
Listen to LACE Partners CEO, Aaron Alburey, discuss all things people_tech at this year's event. https://youtu.be/QTOJjok6A2A
Revolutionising consulting: More experience, for less money
Working for 23 years in two of the most dynamic consulting businesses in the world, during one of the most exciting periods of change for HR, has been thrilling. And it’s been an eye opener. My experience of over 40 client engagements has led me to a major conclusion:...









