The latest HR on the Offensive podcast focuses on talent acquisition and the candidate experience. Host Chris, alongside fellow LACEr David Pacifico, introduce guest speaker, Maggie Spong, the former Global Head of Talent Acquisition at AstraZeneca and Roche. What...
Our latest podcast focuses on wellbeing and productivity. Joining Chris is fellow LACEr and published author Tim Ringo. The conversation revolves around Tim's book, "Solving the Productivity Puzzle," which explores the impact of wellbeing on productivity. Tim’s book...
Recently some members of the LACE team took part in the Evanta CHRO Summit in London, bringing together just under 100 CHRO/CPOs from a wide variety of industry sizes and sectors. Today’s blog focuses on the boardroom discussion we were asked to lead on, which focused...
In the latest episode of our HR on the Offensive podcast, host Chris introduces the topic of tokenism and welcomes fellow LACEr, Bosede Adekola and guests from the Clear Company, Corinne Crosbourne and Maria Baggio, to discuss this important issue. Bosede shares her...
Our latest HR Shared Services (HRSS) forum sparked loads of interesting debate about the issues that are front and centre right now. From the challenges of securing the next generation of talent to finally cracking hybrid working, we gained some fantastic insight from...
In this episode of the HR on the Offensive podcast, Chris and fellow LACErs Cathy Acratopulo, and Evan Wynne discuss the highly topical issue of the enforced return to the office. They delve into the current debate surrounding businesses mandating their employees to...
At LACE, we constantly question the status quo and seek out ways to shake it up. This led us to launch our latest campaign on redefining workplace productivity, making it fit for purpose in a post-pandemic world. As part of this campaign, we recently hosted a...
In our weekly blogs, we’ve talked a lot about the different types of approaches businesses are taking to hybrid working. Each organisation is working through what is most relevant for them, as evidenced by our ‘silver bullet’ series we produced at the beginning of...
We recently ran our latest Chief People Officer (CPO) forum, in which we discussed a manner of different topics from CPOs from a variety of industry sectors and sizes. The discussion was great and included fascinating debate around who should own employee experience,...
In our latest blog we speak with Dr Tracy Brower. Sociologist, author and VP of Workplace Insights at Steelcase. Dr Brower talks with Lace Partners’ Chris Howard and Chris Horton about the complexities surrounding the concepts of productivity and happiness at work....
Our host Chris is joined by Chris Horton as they speak with this week's guest Tracy Brower, Vice President of Workplace Insights at Steelcase. Tracy is a published author and a regular contributor to Forbes magazine. In this podcast she has come onto discuss an...
A new series of videos has been launched to provide a deeper dive into the three core themes of our One Big Thing Campaign; hybrid working, employee value proposition (EVP) and talent. As part of this piece of research, we asked CPOs from a range of industries what...
In this episode host Chris speaks to Kay Phelps founder of PR in HR which topics she is seeing getting the most coverage in the HR press – and which areas are not. PR in HR are a specialist PR agency working with organisations daily to get noticed and have their own...
We’ve just held the latest of our regular HR Shared Services community forums and, as usual, it was an invaluable opportunity to find out the HRSS zeitgeist in the new-look post-pandemic hybrid workspace. A host of HRSS professionals joined us at the forum and...
In the fourth and final one of our 'fireside chat' videos, Chris, Tim, Alice and Chris talk all things employee value proposition (EVP). How do you avoid it just becoming another 'tick box' exercise and ensure that it is an ever-evolving, ever-improving, fundamental...