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.

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 problems they are trying to solve and how they can better evidence their decision making.

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 Services paper. Emma Leonis and Chris Howard from LACE discuss.

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?