In 2021, many businesses experienced a year of change, with organisations quickly adapting through the rapid deployment of HR technology integrations. However, as we approach the Q4 calendar year, there has been talk of ‘tech overload’ across trade and national media....
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Has the global pandemic really brought work/life balance?
Has the global pandemic really brought work/life balance? In 2020 the team at Culture Amp produced Hindsight is 2020, a report analysing the emergency response feedback surveys produced for customers during the pandemic. Chris and Emma from LACE Partners recently sat...
What impact can financial wellbeing have on your workforce?
In this week's podcast, we are joined by Stephen Holliday, CEO of Level Financial Technology, to talk about the impact of financial wellbeing on workforce. What do we mean by the term and why should it be at the top of business leaders' agendas? Listen in to find out...
Understanding the change impacts of an HR transformation
Chris Howard talks to Cathy Acratopulo about some of the top tips and takeaways to think of when running change management programmes whilst undertaking a HR transformation. https://youtu.be/7RHG6eZ3zvg Discover additional resources about change and HR...
How can HR get better at using its people analytics data?
What lessons has the last 18 months taught HR teams when it comes to getting better at analysing their people data and analytics? What impact with predictive analytics have in future? We reflect on all of these questions in this blog summarising the webinar we ran...
HR strategy Vs People strategy – What is the difference?
This week’s blog sees our co-founder and MD Cathy Acratopulo and Director Chris Horton de-mystify the difference between a People Strategy and an HR Strategy, as well as discussing how HR Directors can articulate and operationalise their strategies over time. HR...
How to get better at leveraging data
Barry Green is a specialist in data and worked as a Chief Data Officer for HSBC, Bank of Ireland and Allianz Insurance. In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast he spoke to us about a book he has written – Data Means Business: Level up your organisation to adapt,...
Why an SI is important for your HR tech strategy
The latest LACE Partners blog is a summary from a conversation Chris and Max had on a recent HR on the Offensive podcast. They discussed how the role of a systems integrator (SI) has evolved in recent years and why it is vital to ensure you pick the right partner when...
Is ‘upskilling’ the new ‘hiring’?
In a recent HR on the Offensive Podcast Chris and Max from spoke to Andrew Holmes from Skillsoft about the changes that the online learning platform had seen in 2020 moving in to 2021. Earlier this year they produced a report which focused on 2021 predictions for...
Reinventing HR: The shifting relationship between employees and employers
This week’s blog is a summary of the some of the discussion topics in the recent HR on the Offensive podcast featuring Charlie Knox, Director of Product & Solutions at SD Worx, who spoke to us about the recent ‘Reinventing HR’ white paper which interviews 3000+...
Does retraining and reskilling your employees represent the new currency of the workplace?
Joined by Nelson Sivalingam, CEO of How Now, this week’s blog summarises themes discussed on one of our latest HR on the Offensive podcast. As many organisations have adapted to working through the pandemic the requirements from employees have changed. We...
Leading people change in a challenging year
How do you effectively lead people change in an environment where frontline workers are under so much pressure? In the latest HR on the Offensive podcast Chris and Emma from LACE Partners talk to Penny Lang ab care company - Cornwall Care - and some of the lessons her...
What should you ask yourself when defining your EVP?
In this latest video, Chris Howard discusses with Co-Founder and Managing Director of LACE Partners Cathy Acratopulo, what the key challenge questions HR teams should be asking themselves when defining their EVP. https://youtu.be/FU-lFT7_xME Check out these...
Does your HR Team need a rebrand? What’s in a name?
Today’s blog was born from a discussion on our HR on the Offensive podcast, where Chris and Emma from LACE Partners talked through one of the chapters of: The Future of HR Shared Services: Becoming People and Solutions Experts. The chapter ‘What’s in a name?'...
HR’s rapid pandemic response
In the latest LACE Partners blog we’re featuring a summary of our latest podcast where Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews from the Guild of HR Professionals who talk with Maire Sloman, Vice President of Global HR Operations at Colt, about her career in HR and how the...