In today’s blog Evan from our team took a look at the impact of the proposed pilot of a four-day work week will have in the UK. Can it be more productive than the traditional five-day work week? What are the implications? How will businesses need to adapt their people...
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How can HR make a difference in championing neurodiverse talent?
What is neurodiversity and why aren't employers tapping in to this important talent pool at a time of talent shortages we ware seeing? What are some of the strengths and challenges that exist within a neurodiverse workforce? We explore this and more with Mel Francis,...
Stay interviews – what’s making your employees leave and, conversely, what’s making them stay?
In this week's blog we look at why employees may quit a job but also what makes other employees want to stay. Stay interviews are a great way to get that type of information. Should your business implement stay interviews, or does it depend on your pre-existing level...
How can you create an outcomes-driven performance culture?
In the latest podcast Chris and Emma Leonis-Hughes talk to Appraisd Founder Roly Walter about how to create a an outcomes-driven performance culture. The trio discuss the distinction between an 'output-based culture' and an 'outcome-driven' culture - How does one...
Catering for the needs of a remote and disparate workforce: easyJet
Chris Howard and Emma Leonis were recently joined by Simon Cunniffe from easyJet to discuss how they engage workers who are unconnected, remote or – by their very nature of the job they do – often difficult to reach. This was a follow-on podcast from the webinar held...
What’s hot on an employee experience specialist’s agenda right now?
What are employee experience specialists thinking about right now? Reflecting on a community forum ran by LACE Partners and Applaud, Aaron from LACE and Katie from Applaud discuss some of the hot topics in the EX space....
Benchmarking: Friend or foe of the HR Team?
We are often asked by clients or HR teams in our community about benchmarking and specifically about providing data on how HR teams are performing in their ‘space’. Today’s blog is an overview of some of the key considerations that teams should be thinking of when...
What trends should HRDs be aware of for 2022?
Aaron, Chris and Max from LACE Partners reflect on what the key trends of 2022 might be for HR teams, from refining EVP, more talent fluidity in the HR market, M&A activity and an increase in those looking to the Cloud for their HR tech solutions....
What should be on every HRDs agenda in 2022?
At LACE, we’ve taken a look through an HR lens to explore the key trends shaping the year ahead after two years of significant change. We asked our team to share their top predictions for what HR teams should focus on in 2022—find them below! What do you think? Get in...
Benchmarking: HR’s friend or foe?
What should you benchmark? Why should you benchmark? What are others benchmarking? And what are the cautionary tales? We explore this in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Chris Howard and Cathy Acratopulo from the LACE Partners team....
Organisational design in 2022 – what should we expect?
Earlier this year we were asked to give our view on a perspective that an optimal number of employees per line manager was between eight to ten. But with leaders not in the same room, should this be reduced? We reflected on this in a piece featured the HR Director...
What key factors should you consider when developing your digital adoption plan?
Raj Sundarason, author of 'The DAP Strategy', talks to Chris from LACE Partners about his latest book, which makes some bold predictions about the digital adoption market between now and 2027. Find out some of those predictions in the latest episode, out now. ...
How to make performance management more relevant and accessible
What is continuous performance management? What benefit does it have for employees? What are the challenges of not getting it right? We explore this and more with Roly Walter from Appraisd, who talks us through his background and organisation. Find out more about...
HR: Make the most of budget season 2022
HR budget planning for 2022 is already underway as 2021 comes to a close. With this in mind, we were recently invited by Unleash to talk about the key challenges and considerations HR teams need to be thinking through as they set their budgets and map out their...
How should HR respond to ‘The Great Resignation’?
In this week’s blog LACE Senior Manager Luka Winterborne and MD Cathy Acratopulo respond to one of the hottest topics in HR at the moment: ‘The Great Resignation’. Read on to learn what questions every HR Director should be asking themselves and why your employee...