People & Skills
Cookies and privacy notices: do I need them on my website?
This webinar will cover what cookies are and what cookie law is, what a privacy notice is, the laws surrounding both, and how to ensure you are being transparent to your customers when creating a cookie policy and privacy notice.
Featured Webinar Playlist: Wellbeing
Learn how to build resilience and communication, create a positive work environment, and support the mental health of both your team and yourself with our free wellbeing webinars playlist.
Funding Growth
This webinar will provide you with a summary of all the commercial funding options available to businesses, with detail on how to make your business more attractive to funders.
An introduction to sales
This webinar will help you get sales confident by providing tips and guidance on mastering important communication skills.
Free Webinar :People risk and succession planning
This webinar will educate you about the people risk within business, and how to implement a strategy to minimise or remove the risk from your business.
Employer's Apprenticeship Toolkit
Thousands of businesses just like yours are using apprenticeships to help them grow. Download the toolkit to learn how apprenticeship training can link to your business’s aspirations.
Free Webinar : Leading through change
This webinar will provide support to leaders and managers who are navigating their teams through change, or have change on the horizon, and want to ensure they bring all of their team through to the other side.
Free Webinar : Creating healthy work life boundaries
This webinar will help leaders and managers to understand how to set healthy workplace boundaries, create a positive work culture, and improve performance by valuing relationships and trust.
Free Webinar: Nine to thrive - employee wellness and engagement
This webinar will explore the benefits of supporting mental health in the workplace, and help business leaders and managers understand alternative ways to attract and retain key talent in your business.
Harrogate Support Programmes 2022
We are providing a number of fully funded Harrogate business support programmes for start-ups and growing businesses in the district.
The Mental Health & Wellbeing Toolkit
Download the Mental Health & Wellbeing Toolkit and answer your questions about workplace wellbeing and access practical resources that you can use for yourself and your employees.
Harrogate business support: Change management support programme
Take a deep dive into your challenges and create a bespoke growth/ change management action plan with this fully funded opportunity for Harrogate businesses. Upon completion, you will also be referred for up to eight hours of further support.
Articles
The Benefits of Local Business Networking
Building relationships with other local businesses can be incredibly rewarding on a personal level as well as a shrewd business decision. Forging friendships with other people, many of whom may be facing similar challenges to you, can have some fantastic benefits that will enable you to grow your business – some of which you may
Supporting employee wellbeing as your staff return to the office
Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is a challenge for almost everyone and, if you take some time away from work, picking up from where you left off can be tricky for employees. Whether it’s returning from parental leave, a period of illness, or even a long holiday – such as the Christmas break – giving
Leadership & Management Skills for Growth
Good leadership and management strategy is vital for business resilience and, considering the business climate of the past couple of years, the need for businesses to be strong enough to face serious challenges is increasingly apparent. Beyond this, the right kind of leadership can make the biggest difference for the wellbeing of your team; by
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.
