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Talent and skills
Empower your workforce to continually evolve.
How we can help you:
Economic uncertainty, automation, post-Covid shifts, and changing workforce attitudes have forced a rethink of talent, skills, and learning. By optimising talent acquisition and learning and development functions, organisations can glean significant improvements to experience, workforce productivity and efficiencies, as well as support the engagement and retention of key talent.
The move towards becoming a skills-based organisation will enable rapid responses to changing business models and technological advancements. To yield these benefits, HR are required to re-imagine their core functions and competitive differentiation. However, a transformation of this scale requires a new strategic mindset towards a flexible workforce, continual reinvention of skills and imbuing the right culture to support it.
This requires a fundamental shift in understanding the current and future workforce skills requirements, evolving the culture of the organisation and investing in HR technology to enable this.
Reimagine your talent roadmap
Are you striving to build out a world-class candidate experience through a talent acquisition transformation project, but need some help?
We help organisations to reimagine their talent, skills and learning approach to deliver a greater return on investment. We work with your business and key stakeholders to develop a business aligned strategy and roadmap that’s fit for the future.
Build your skills and talent value case
Are you adopting a skills-based approach to identifying the future skills your business needs? Are you thinking about where you need to reskill parts of your business but you’re not sure where to start?
What talent technology do you have? Is it working for you? Are you able to articulate the benefits to the business?
We do an in-depth analysis of your functions, assess your technologies and develop a value case for how you may best optimise them.
Designing talent and skills solutions
What programmes and processes will deliver the most value?
Whether you want to start by designing your job and skills architecture or have a burning platform for a talent or learning programme, we can help you to design and pilot the right solution for you.
Our deep expertise in HR transformation gives us a suite of best-practice processes and leading programme design for your talent acquisition, learning, talent management and skills-based solutions.
Independent advice on the right tools to manage your talent
With so many different types of talent and skills technology out there in the market, where do you start? How do you know what is right for your business that suits your requirements?
We are vendor agnostic, so can provide an independent review and identify opportunities to deliver a greater return on investment via third parties.
Becoming skills-powered
We help you rethink work, jobs, and skills and guide you through key considerations for implementing a skills-based organisation.
What makes us HR experts
We are experienced talent, skills and learning experts
We are technology agnostic, so can provide objective thinking for greater opportunities
We’ve been you, so know the challenges you face and can provide experience led insights
We are flexible and tailored in our approach
Our top client story
Talent acquisition transformation for a global mining company, delivering an end-to-end review of the global talent acquisition function and processes, providing a comparison to market best practice and developing a transformation roadmap.
Our latest content on Talent and skills:
What is a CPO? With Keniro Miller
The end of the graduate career ladder? How AI is reshaping early-career talent
Early careers in the future of work: an analyst’s perspective
The death of the job application: Is AI at fault?
Becoming skills-powered: A blueprint for future-ready organisations
Beyond the UK Budget headlines: Preparing your People strategy for 2026
How to turn talent scarcity into strategic advantage
Beyond promotions: Why every organisation needs a modern career map
The transformation blueprint for mastering job architecture
The empathy engine: Navigating AI-driven change with people at the core
How can AI enhance productivity and transform the future of work?
How can HR solve the business efficiency paradox?
Navigating successful strategic workforce planning
Key approaches to strategic workforce planning
The global skills map: Navigating cultural nuances in talent acquisition
What are sunrise and sunset skills and how do you use them?
The efficiency paradox – Whitepaper
How to modernise your workforce strategy to tackle skills gaps
How do skills approaches fit into the employee lifecycle?
Is a skills-based approach the future of strategic workforce planning?
Skills and ladders: Interactive skills strategy workshop
What is the role of a super-powered people manager in a skills-based organisation?
Can employees embrace the shift to a skills-based organisation? Individual impacts of moving to a SBO
The cultural transformation of moving to a skills-based organisation
What do we mean by skills? Unpacking the skills vs competencies terminology
How Father Christmas keeps the elves motivated: Performance and rewards at the North Pole
How Father Christmas crafts a strategic workforce plan: A tale of talent and tinsel
How can skills-based strategies empower your workforce?
Flexing the EVP: The new approach to attracting talent across generations
Skills, growth, and mentorship
How will AI impact organisations becoming skills-powered?
Skills strategy workshop: Workday powered by LACE Partners
How can a skills-based approach shape a more inclusive and adaptable future of work?
Using a skills strategy to boost business success
How can organisations leverage a skills-based approach to bridge skill gaps?
How are skills-based trends impacting the recruitment industry?
What is a CPO? With Keniro Miller
“A Chief People Officer is a hybrid role of pretty much most of the exec roles that sit around the table.” The role of a Chief People Officer is...
The end of the graduate career ladder? How AI is reshaping early-career talent
In brief: AI is automating many tasks traditionally assigned to graduates Early evidence suggests hiring for entry-level roles is slowing in...
Early careers in the future of work: an analyst’s perspective
In this week’s blog we hear from Talia Pavell, one of the analysts in our early career programme, as she explores the relationship between early...
The death of the job application: Is AI at fault?
AI is flooding hiring pipelines with polished look-alike applications, and recruiters are struggling to tell real capability from well-written...
Becoming skills-powered: A blueprint for future-ready organisations
Organisations everywhere are rethinking how work gets done. Traditional job-based structures are struggling to keep pace with rapid change, emerging...
Beyond the UK Budget headlines: Preparing your People strategy for 2026
In brief • The UK Budget appears stable at headline level, but underlying structural changes will significantly increase employment costs and...
We’ll assess your current situation, design an approach tailored to your business needs and culture, and deliver solutions that fit your timeline and budget.
