How can businesses find the balance between AI and human connection? What do we think the future of AI will look like in HR? In this week's podcast we speak to Racheal and Aaron from LACE about where we are at now, and where AI will take HR in the near future.

How did leaders step up in 2020 and now in 2021? What does work/life balance really look like? How much have businesses changed in terms of D&I since the George Floyd murder? Why are HR still bearing the brunt of emotional labour?

We look at these questions and more with Melissa Paris from Culture Amp, as she reflects on a survey conducted in 2020 that Culture Amp wrote a blog on earlier in the year. How much has changed since then?

You can also read the blog here -https://www.cultureamp.com/blog/covid-19-survey-insights

What value can a digital adoption platform add from a data and analytics perspective? How can it help businesses undertaking a digital transformation to improve operational efficiency? And how should what you measure change depending on where you are in your transformation journey?

We look at this in the latest podcast, which is a review of a recent whitepaper produced by the Everest Group and Applearn, looking at the power of DAP analytics software.

You can download the report from the Applearn website here -https://applearn.com/insights/understanding-digital-adoption-analytics/

What is the highest priority for HR leaders in 2021 and beyond? Why can technology be such an area of frustration for employees, from an EX perspective? Why are so many businesses looking to increase the number of HR systems they have in place? We look at this and more in the latest podcast with Applaud, who recently released the whitepaper "The Future of HR: Employee experience fuelled by consumer-grade technology" - link to download the report here -

https://www.applaudhr.com/tei-report

What lessons has the last 18 months taught HR teams when it comes to getting better at analysing their people data and analytics? What impact with predictive analytics have in future? How can you better leverage the HR system you already have? We look at all of these questions in the latest podcast, which was a reflection podcast following the webinar we ran with Ceridian in July. To see the webinar visit -https://lacepartners.co.uk/insights/lace-partners-webinars/

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-Means-Business-organisation-ever-changing-ebook/dp/B08YKDSXHY) about what he's learned in his time working within a change environment, across multiple business functions, and what HR teams can learn about how to get better with using their data.