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 report is here - https://www.applaudhr.com/2021-digital-employee-experience-trends

There is also a free digital audit you can complete here - https://s.surveyanyplace.com/digitalexpaudit?cf1=lace

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 them improve the environment of employees.

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/) in the latest HR on the Offensive Podcast.

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 Gaynor discuss the considerations HR teams need to make when selecting the right tech for them.

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 quicker than they currently are.