People & Skills
Events
10th November 20219:00 am - 10:00 amFREE
10 Nov - Mental health awareness for leaders
Investing in mental health creates a better, more open workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn how to identify mental health issues, engage in sensitive conversations, and support employees and co-workers with this free webinar.
12th November 20211:00 pm - 2:00 pmFREE
12 Nov - Networking for your development
By networking, we can understand better how businesses work, share our skills, and gain different perspectives. Find out how to get the most from networking, and how it can help you succeed, with this webinar.
14th December 202110:00 am - 11:00 amFREE
14 Dec - Finding new business & markets through prospecting
Seeking out new markets and bringing in new business is vital for growth. Learn how to identify and explore new markets, and work out a strategy of how to tap into them, with this webinar.
Webinar: None of us are superhuman - maintaining positive mental health and wellbeing in difficult times
This free webinar will explore the definition of mental health and wellbeing, what happens in our brain when we experience significant change and some of the common signs of low mental wellbeing. It will look at tools and resources that can improve mental wellbeing during times of extreme change.
Webinar: Conflict – why it’s important and how to manage it.
This free webinar with leadership expert Suzanne Courtney will support leaders in understanding why healthy conflict is important for creating high performing teams and how to manage it.
Webinar: Changes in employees' terms and conditions and restructures.
This webinar with managing director of Thrive Law, Jodie Hill will consider how to restructure a business, and how to vary an employees’ terms and conditions with fair consultation.
Leadership Series: Leading through Change and Adversity
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to help leaders understand how to communicate for buy-in and work with a strategy and approach to support and embed change.
Leadership Series: Leading authentically and how to inspire others
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to help give leaders the confidence to lead authentically and in a way that inspires those around them.
Leadership Series: Leading your team with purpose
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to provide tools and techniques to set achievable goals and bring values to life for your team that will inspire them to deliver.
How to conduct a fair redundancy process
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Thrive Law to provide practical advice on how to conduct a fair redundancy process.
How to manage staff remotely
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Thrive Law to provide practical advice on how to negotiate the challenges of managing staff remotely.
Free webinar: COVID-19 and the workplace - helping you stay safe
This free webinar on Covid-19 and the workplace will look at how to embed behaviours and measures to help everyone work safely.
Free webinar: New funding opportunities for skills training and the Kickstart scheme
This free webinar will clarify the recent government funding schemes for skills training aimed at providing workplace opportunities for young people.
Free webinar: Attracting talent in a virtual recruitment market
This one hour workshop will enable business leaders to better understand the virtual recruitment landscape and maximise the opportunities.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading with purpose
This free one-hour webinar will help you with strategies to mean that your team feels connected, can contribute and have a sense of purpose.
Articles
Top five barriers to creativity in business
Creativity in business can come in many forms. From fresh content production to dynamic problem solving – allowing your ideas and innovations to materialise is such an important part of growing a successful business. Whether its time or money or team dynamics or a global pandemic, barriers to creativity in business can come from all
The Kickstart Scheme: Kickstarting the Future
York & North Yorkshire LEP Kickstarter Danny talks about the benefits of the Kickstart Scheme for both businesses and young people.
New Business Board Chair appointed
A new business board chair is confident the York and North Yorkshire economy will grow back and better, as it recovers from the impact of Covid-19.
Learning at Work Week
Today (Monday 17 May) marks the launch of Learning at Work Week. This annual event from the Campaign for Learning aims to build learning cultures at work, and put a spotlight on the importance and benefits of continual learning and development.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Today (Monday 10 May) marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.
Introducing our new series of free Leadership webinars!
As part of our online business support webinar programme, we are delighted to be partnering with Michelle Mook, Managing Director of Pro-Development, to deliver a series of nine Leadership webinars starting on 26 November.
7 top tips for staff performance management
In any business, managing staff performance is really important. Without your staff, your business cannot operate, so you need to make sure that all your employees are motivated and productive.
Free leadership webinars for businesses
Managers are invited to a series of free leadership webinars to help their teams during Covid-19.
Developing team leadership skills in your business
The first thing you’ll need to do is identify who you think might be best suited to a leadership role.
