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Develop your career with LACE Partners
Here's a short video on what it is like to work for LACE Partners. If you are interested then get in touch with us, fill in the form below, we'll be happy to help! https://youtu.be/kBwIjRHW9oM Explore these resources: Life @ LACE Why LACE Our people

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?'...

Is retraining and reskilling your people the new currency of work?
Nelson from HowNow joins Chris and Emma from LACE Partners to discuss whether now is the best opportunity to review your digital learning platforms given the current global environment. We also talk about the increase in companies using outplacement services, as well...

The HR budget 2021 – what HR teams need to know
Explore more insightful content here: HR budgeting for 2022 – what should you be thinking about? Understanding and overcoming buyer’s remorse in HR technology investments Investment in your payroll function: All or nothing?

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...

International Women’s Day: Celebrating women in LACE and beyond
Since the 1900s, International Women’s Day (IWD) has been recognised and celebrated, a movement born of the unfair mistreatment of women and the discrimination they face. We celebrate those who paved the way for us, fighting for women’s rights to vote, work, and to be...

To ‘best of breed’ or ‘enterprise’ platform, that is the question…
Should organisations look to commit to a single end-to-end ‘enterprise’ platform or hand pick a selection of the latest ‘best of breed’ bleeding edge vertical technologies from across the employee life cycle? Should you commit to one approach or is there a middle...

Does your HR team need a rebrand? What’s in a name?
Why has HR historically been seen as a second-class citizen? What can HR teams do to change that? Should your HR team re-brand itself so that it is seen like a strategic people function, rather than just a HR operations team? We look at these questions and more in the...

How do you continuously improve your digital employee experience?
How to improve your digital employee experience? In the latest podcast Andrew Hall from Philip Morris International joins Chris and Emma at LACE Partners to discuss the types of HR tech that organisations are using. What is the right channel management strategy? How...