Can we redefine the word “productivity”? In addition to the host Chris, fellow LACErs Tim Ringo and Chris Horton are also on hand to provide their perspectives. We recently launched a campaign called "Redefining workforce productivity." As part of the campaign, we...
In our latest 60 second video, Tim Ringo award-winning author and speaker, joins Chris Howard to discuss his book 'Solving the the Productivity Puzzle' as part of our redefining workplace productivity campaign. Watch the video below. If you would like to find our more...
Our latest Talent Dinner gathered key players to discuss the challenges faced by HR and Talent leaders and, of course, to come up with some solutions. Here’s what we discussed, learned and absorbed. We regularly run networking dinners and have a number of different...
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...
Since the global pandemic and the fundamental shifts that have occurred in the world of work, emphasis has focused on how organisations can create value with what they already have, with one word being constantly re-iterated in the media and in boardrooms across all...
In this latest 60 second video Debbie Mitchell talks about LACE's CPO healthcheck, which is designed to support Chief People Officers (CPO) as they join a new business. The healthcheck can help with those first 100 days and Debbie gives an overview of it in our latest...
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...
Last year we released our HR's 'one big thing' report, which looked at what the biggest strategic issues are for Chief People Officer's (CPOs) and, following a campaign in which we've looked in detail at the 'top three' key issues that CPOs said were keeping them up...
Over the last few weeks there have been a number of articles that have talked about 'copycat layoffs', with the World Economic Forum even adding the term to its list of the 'biggest buzzwords' of 2023. In today's special blog we've asked Chris Horton from our team to...
It's time for our third and final blog of our productivity silver bullet series! In case you missed them, part one showed set the context for hybrid working and it's history in working life. In part two, Tim looked at how to optimise the opportunity to improve people...
Leading HR consultancy LACE Partners has today announced a significant investment from private equity business Mobeus. Co-founders of LACE, Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo, said it will help to ‘supercharge’ the business ahead of increasing demand for strategic HR...
In part one of our series about ‘The Productivity Silver Bullet’, published last week, we defined what the silver bullet is and backed up the idea that it is one of those rare times when an apparent “magical” solution can be found to a lingering problem. Evidence...
In this three-part series, Tim Ringo from our team considers whether home and hybrid working is the ‘silver bullet’ for greater productivity that many purport it to be – and what that might mean for your organisation’s working practices. The COVID19 pandemic was the...
In one of our latest pieces, Tim Ringo from our team takes a look at a recent article in The Times that focused on a government campaign to bring over-50's out of retirement, assessing the impact for businesses. Could this be a talent pool that businesses can...
Back in July, we published our HR Shared Services Trends 2022 report. Since then, senior HR Shared Services professionals have noted several consistent themes emerging within their businesses. Recently we gathered senior HRSS people and homed in on a specific part of...
