Chris from LACE Partners is joined by Jig Ramji, Head of Talent at the London Stock Exchange, to talk about the importance of HR teams using data to evidence their decision making and delivering ROI to the people function. Jig talks about challenges of businesses who value HR as a critical part of its business objectives, as well as those businesses who don't put HR at the front of their strategy.

In this first episode of the Guild of HR Professionals' series of leadership 'in the spotlight' podcasts, Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners talk to Danny Harmer from Aviva on her experiences during the current lockdown period, having joined Aviva earlier in 2020.

What are the common challenges that leadership teams are facing and what coaching support do they need? Do HR Directors need to focus more on themselves in getting coaching support? Jessica Raby from Jess Raby Associates talks to Chris and Aaron from LACE Partners.

How good is your digital learning platform and how much are you utilising it in the current climate? With some businesses using digital learning to re-skill employees in light of the Covid-19 global pandemic, or with furloughed employees able to undertake training whilst not being able to physically work, digital learning has become even more prevalent. The latest Hr on the Offensive Podcast talks to Andrew Holmes from Skillsoft, a digital learning provider.

What is your business doing about it's wellbeing strategy? What are other HR teams looking at right now? What will be the focus as we come out of the current global pandemic? The LACE Partners Team spoke to Annette Andrews, former Chief People Officer at Lloyds of London, to find out what she is seeing and hearing from senior colleagues in the industry.

How can HR teams react appropriately to the current crisis brought about by Covid-19? Is HR the conscience of the business? What does the return to work plan look like? What will 'business as usual' look like when the crisis starts to subside?

Chris from LACE Partners sat down with strategic advisor Kevin Green to ask how HR can think differently and how bold HR should be.

Workforce planning may not be new, but the environment we are currently operating in caused by the global pandemic is. Chris Howard and Charlie Donaldson talk about why agility is needed more than ever from HR during this current period and what HR teams need to be thinking about as they consider how to efficiently restructure and reploy their workforce to be in the best position to succeed once we exit this current crisis.

With large numbers of people working from home during the global pandemic, how can you maintain business continuity in your culture, your people and your processes? Aaron Alburey and Cathy Acratopulo look at this issue, as well as the impact that technology is playing for companies, in this challenging time.

We all know what it feels like to be managed well, but how many of us have been trained to be better people managers? How many companies have effective processes in place to help line managers become better people managers? Cathy Acratopulo from LACE Partners shares some findings from work LACE Partners has done with a variety of different sized businesses across a multitude of different industries.

How will AI and blockchain impact HR teams in 2020? How much do you need to know about and what’s on the horizon? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners provides a quick overview, as well as some of the practical ways in which these two very different technologies will affect your department.