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CPOs: From HR to workforce transformation - whitepaper
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Are your HR team viewed as the ‘HR police’?
How well does your HR team deliver successful diagnosis for its challenges, rather than retrospectively finding solutions? Is your HR function seen as the ‘police’ of your business and what can you do to avoid that? Chris from LACE Partners talks to Steve Othen from...
How can you inspire a culture of innovation within your organisation?
Wendy Muirhead from Ceridian talks about how they strive to drive innovation in their business through the culture that they have developed. As a technology-focused business, the expectation is that Ceridian are innovative in their culture, but how do they achieve...
Your people capabilities – how does HR up its game?
How capable is your HR function? What is stopping your team from reaching your strategic objectives? In 2019, LACE Partners spoke to a series of HRDs as part of the HR on the Offensive whitepaper and to follow on from the findings, Emma Leonis talks about the...
HR teams: Is your people data strategy a priority post Covid?
Max Bailey from LACE Partners talks about why HR teams and the importance of a people data strategy will be pushed to the forefront of businesses minds in the wake of the pandemic. https://youtu.be/H7y4ZvuY0wg Explore more insightful content here: How...
Life @ LACE – Pip Anderson
At LACE Partners we're really proud of the collaborative culture that has developed since we began in 2014. As a team we like to describe ourselves as a big 'family' and as part of an ongoing series we've been running over the last couple of years, today's blog is a...
From dissonance to resonance – get employees engaged and ‘in sync’
How do you make the world of work more engaging for your people? How do you bring your workplaces back into sync with better engagement and how can you break down the existing constructs of the workplace to improve the overall efficiency of your business? Chris talks...
HR tech – from back room to leading the way
HR systems have been shown to be critical to organisational success. Will HR tech move from being a back office to a major enabling tool to help business make enough of their human potential? Max from the HR Tech team shares his thoughts... Why HR should make data a...
How do you keep line managers positive and engaged?
In such a time of uncertainty and both personal and professional challenges, how can HR teams keep their line managers positively engaged, especially when so many are remote managing (possibly for the first time)? Danny Harmer from Aviva and Steph Davies from...
In the Spotlight – Episode 6 – Agile leadership with Stephen Sidebottom and Clare Hayward
What is agile leadership? How do you identify companies that deliver it and what types of characteristics do they have? Stephen Sidebottom and Clare Hayward explore this in the latest edition of 'In the Spotlight,' a HR podcast brought to you by the Guild of HR...
Is your payroll offering resilient?
How resilient is your payroll offering? In today’s volatile business environment, payroll teams face unprecedented challenges that demand innovative solutions. In this video, Chris Howard discusses these issues with Adam Morris from the HR transformation team,...
What considerations are you making for furloughed workers return or redundancy?
In the second of a two-part HR on the Offensive podcast with our partners Norton Rose Fulbright (you can read part one here), we discussed the issues of furlough and redundancy for HR teams and the businesses they operate within. Once again Cathy and Chris from LACE...
Bringing back furloughed workers: what do you need to know?
What legal considerations do you need to make when bringing back furloughed workers? How much notice do you need to give to inform a furloughed worker of a return date? What can those workers do when on leave and what are the logistics of part-time working? What about...