The People Agenda

Are you looking at migrating your HR system to the Cloud? What are your motivations? How do you ensure a smooth transition? What should your 'post-go live' plan look like? We discuss this in the latest podcast, taken from the webinar 'Getting HR's Head in to the Cloud' from earlier in July 2021.

Chris Howard is joined by Emma Leonis from LACE to discuss some of the challenges HR leaders are faced with such as 'How do you deliver employee-centric services given geographic challenges?' and 'How do you create a one-team culture in HR?'. This podcast is a follow-up session from our May webinar, where we spoke to Vale Dale - Aggreko and Jayne Traill - Syngenta.

What are the biggest challenges that companies face when thinking about changing their payroll provider? How do you build your business case for change? Adam Morris and Chris Kirby from LACE Partners discuss some of the challenges they have seen from some of the businesses we work with on payroll consultancy support.

Chris Howard is joined by Cathy Acratopulo and Chris Horton from LACE to discuss the differences between an HR strategy and a people strategy. Delving deeper into questions like, why we need both? and what are the strategic themes we are seeing?

How many businesses get it right when it comes to using people data to become more adaptable in their thinking? How much does culture play in effectively leveraging data? What can HR learn from building - and being part of - cross-functional teams leading on data projects? The latest podcast talks to Barry Green, co-author of 'Data Means Business' (available here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Me...

Chris is joined by Cathy and Rachel from LACE to discuss the complexities of HR transformations compared to other transformations. They also discuss lessons learned when it comes to managing change impacts, as well as how much of an impact COVID has had in terms of personas and hybrid working.

Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners talk to Bob Rehill from HRTech247 about his online marketplace for HR tech businesses to share their products, as well as consultancies to share their experiences.

How has the role of the SI changed and evolved over the years? Why are they so important when you are embedding a new piece of HR tech? What questions should you be asking of them? What does a good SI look like? We ask these questions and more in the latest podcast featuring Max and Chris from LACE Partners.

Why don't more large scale organisations offer hyper-personalisation in their employee experience? Why do so few offer some or all of their HR services via mobile? What more can be done during the induction process with regards to remote working? We discuss this and more in the latest podcast with Duncan Casemore from Applaud, who have recently released a digital EX trends report. A copy of the re...

Future Workshops Founder Matt Brooke-Smith tells Chris and Max from LACE Partners about the importance of the research and analysis on what the business needs are for a business before rushing in to developing an app. He also talks about how their low-code/no-code app development approach has enabled a number of businesses - and HR teams - to broaden their horizons.

How can you avoid a culture of workplace bullying in a business? How do you spot the signs? How do you manage all individuals involved, from the employee, to the line manager and how can you support all parties to prevent any such scenario occuring. Those are just a few questions that Chris from LACE posed to Nicki Eyre from Conduct Change, a specialist consultancy who work with businesses to help...

Chris and Max ask Andrew Holmes from Skillsoft whether upskilling is now clearly more attractive to businesses than the costs of hiring new skills and talent in to the workforce. This comes from a white paper Skillsoft produced earlier in the year, which you can find more about here - https://www.skillsoft.com/resources/skillsoft-signals-report-pg8647a1

What are the challenges HR leaders face in empowering their managers and leveraging technology to do so? How have these challenges changed over the last 12 - 18 months? How do you give line managers control and independence, whilst ensure they have a degree of self service that can still be supported? We asked a few of these questions to Michael Campbell from AdviserPlus (https://adviserplus.com/)...

What is the right HR tech for your business? How do you decide which will work? What questions should you be asking yourself before making the decision? In the latest HR on the Offensive podcast - which was a follow on conversation from the blog written a few weeks back on our website - https://lacepartners.co.uk/best-of-breed-versus-enterprise-platform/ - Max Bailey, Aaron Alburey and Kayley Gayn...

Chris and Emma are joined by Charlie Knox from SDWorx to discuss their latest white paper, which looked at survey results of over 3000 respondents to the changes that HR teams are expecting to occur after the pandemic, including the improving of employee experience as a priority, as well as the rise in flexible workers/freelancers and of course the need for organisations to reach digital maturity...

How do you effectively manage 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 about the last year working in HR at a care company - Cornwall Care - and some of the lessons her and her team learnt.

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. Also discussed is the increase in companies using outplacement services, as well as the ever-growing importance of re-skilling workers for the future of the business, and whether HR/L&D teams identify the key probl...

In this special episode of HR on the Offensive, Chris from LACE Partners talks to Paul Chamberlain, Head of Employment at JMW Solicitors, about some of the key employment-related announcements in the Chancellor's March 2021 budget. Immigration, tax exemptions for remote workers, as well as self employment updates, all included in today's podcast.

Maire Sloman from Colt talks to Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews from the Guild of HR Professionals about her teams response to the global pandemic, how HR in general has evolved and the lessons we can all take as we look to exit this pandemic period.

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 latest LACE Partners podcast, which is a deep dive on our white paper chapter 'What's in a name?' in the Future of HR Shared Servic...

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 does your culture impact the different channels you implement to your people (chatbots, etc)? What are some of the best adoption metrics to measure what success looks like?

What is your EVP and how has it evolved over time? Has the global pandemic changed it? Why should you be looking to constantly review and refresh it? What is 'the deal' you offer your employees and how well do you communicate it? These are just a few of the questions Cathy and Chris from LACE Partners discussed in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast.

Aaron and Annette from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Darren Cornish of Aviva about his transition in to the world of HR and the challenging first year he had in the function. They also discuss the value of peer-to-peer networking groups and the Guild's leadership programme.

How can leaders stay connected in 2021? What are the pressure points that leaders should think of? What are the short and long term impacts on productivity and happiness? What are the biggest risks you see for 2021? Emma and Chris from LACE Partners talk to Steve Bernard, founder of Connectwell, in the latest HR on the Offensive podcast.

In the latest 'In the Spotlight' episode Aaron and Annette from the Guild of HR Professionals talk to Keri Garrod about her career, what she's learned from her experience both in the |UK and working in the Middle East, as well as the importance of developing her networking and getting 'out of her comfort zone' as a senior HR professional