Doing things right or doing the right thing? Aaron Alburey from LACE Partners and Co-host Annette Andrews from the HR Guild, talk to Stephanie Davies - From Laughology and Founder of the National Happiness Awards, about what we should be thinking about as we step into the new norm of the working world.

An introduction from Aaron Alburey and Annette Andrews talking about season two of the HR Guild podcast, in which they explain what to look forward to in this upcoming series.

They talk about being a 'business professional' rather than just a 'HR professional' and how this series will focus on how to help people network, develop themselves and give back to the HR community.

On this Thursday's podcast Aaron and Chris are joined by technology adoption expert Andy Barlow, VP of Innovation at Applearn. We talk to Andy about their recently released Digital Adoption Pulse Report, where they asked 500 business leaders what their experiences, challenges and priorities were in terms of enterprise software. Listen to the podcast to deep dive into the results.

We sit down with employee experience expert Luka Winterborne and our Director, HR Transformation Emma Leonis to talk about how Covid-19 has pushed many organisations to drastically change and improve their digital employee experiences. We explore the new focus on employee safety and wellbeing, the importance of service delivery tech and how HR teams can adapt to a quickly changing working world.

Chris from LACE Partners talks to Raj Sundareson from WalkMe about the future of the digital adoption space. Raj talks about the way in which DAPs can improve effieicny and speed up peoples lives. He also explains how digital adoption solutions can turn HR into problem solvers.

Chris and Aaron discuss the importance of collaboration tools in keeping workforces connected with Nazir Ul-Ghani, Head of Workplace by Facebook. They discuss how people have quickly adapted to life during lockdown and how collaboration tools that enable online engagement with work colleagues have played such a big part, as well as what the future holds for the evolution of the space.

Digital Adoptions Solutions and why they should matter to you by LACE Partners

What are the biggest challenges that the global coronavirus pandemic has delivered for HR and resourcing teams when it comes to talent management? How are priorities going to need to shift in terms of the skillsets needed by businesses? How much impact will a second wave of the pandemic have on businesses forecasting their talent attraction and retention strategies? Kevin Green discusses this and more with Chris in the latest podcast.

Kerry Nutley, Human Capital Management Strategy Director for Oracle, talks to Chris about how rapid change has meant increasing digitisation for HR teams. The impact of proper adoption of technology is essential and so Kerry and Chris discuss that, as well as changing people and culture, in addition to some innovative ways in which some businesses are leveraging technology to drive their people performance.

How well does your HR team deliver successful diagnosis for its challenges, rather than retrospectively finding solutions? Is your HR function seen as the ‘police’ of your business and what can you do to avoid that? Chris from LACE Partners talks to Steve Othen from Product Madness about these issues, as well as what Product Madness are doing to drive the upskilling of their people.