People & Skills
Events
12th October 2022FREE
York & Harrogate Business Support : The Courageous Females Programme
For Women in Business (owners or their teams) who want to reach their potential and enjoy higher levels of confidence and resilience. A fully funded opportunity for up to 15 businesses trading or registered in City of York Council or Harrogate Borough Council areas.
12th October 20229:00 am - 12:30 pmFREE
Enabling Others to Flourish
Aimed at managers, this workshop will help you learn how to create a psychologically safe, high performance environment.
18th October 202210:30 am - 12:00 pmFREE
Menopause Wellbeing in the Workplace : York Business Support Programme
This fully-funded workshop held in York will look at the menopause and its impact on the people in your business, with suggestions of simple workplace adjustments to support staff experiencing menopause. Delivered by Sally Duffin of 'Nutrition in York'
18th October 20221:00 pm - 5:00 pmFREE
Wellbeing Conversations for Managers : York Business Support Programme
This half-day workshop is designed to equip managers to start having wellbeing conversations with their team members.
08th November 20228:00 am - 10:00 pmFREE
The Past and Future of York City Centre
A full day and evening of activities at the Guildhall in York, covering finance, social media, selling online, hospitality and more, with and networking opportunities and expert speakers discussing the past and future of York City Centre.
08th November 202211:00 am - 12:00 pmFREE
Create a World Class Customer Experience
As part of a day of activities at the Guildhall this interactive session with Ian Sadler of Insight6 is aimed at retail and visitor economy businesses. The workshop will provide motivational and practical help to businesses looking to retain existing customers, gain new customers, and sell more.
10th November 20229:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
York Business Festival : People Manager Fundamentals
This workshop helps new managers recognise their own leadership style and deepen their skills for understanding and leading their team members and provides a structure and toolkit to ensure that managers raise their self-awareness, get the best from their team and achieve positive results
30th November 2022FREE
York Business Festival : November 2022
The Growth Hub is proud to be amongst the organisers of this year's expanded York Business Festival, with a week of events as part of a wider programme of activity throughout November. Read on to learn what will be available through the Growth Hub and other organisations.
13th December 2022FREE
Retail Forum Panel : York Business Festival
To mark the end of a day of activities at the Guildhall, the Growth Hub will be hosting an evening panel focused on retailers and B2B businesses in York. The discussion will cover topics related to the future of the city centre as a retail and leisure destination, and will feature local experts and keynote speakers.
Care Home Training - 'Empowering Choices' with Living 4 Moments
An opportunity for care homes registered in City of York Council or Harrogate Borough Council areas to receive fully funded staff training delivered in their premises. 'Empowering Choices' aims to enable health and social care professionals to become less risk averse with their clients in order to bring about better outcomes and improve their quality of life.
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in Harrogate
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with Harrogate Borough Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in Harrogate and aim to support business owners, managers, and employees on a wide variety of subjects. These fully funded
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in York
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with City of York Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in York and aim to support business owners, managers, and employees on a wide variety of subjects. These fully
Upcoming Business Support Programmes in York and Harrogate
The York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub is working in collaboration with City of York Council and Harrogate Borough Council to deliver an extensive range of business support programmes. Starting from September 2022, these events will be held at venues in York and Harrogate, as well as online, and aim to support business owners, managers,
Featured Webinar Playlist: Leadership and management
Learn how to manage and empower your team, boost business growth and hone your leadership skills with our free webinar playlist.
Featured Webinar Playlist: Recruitment and retention
Attract talent, improve your recruitment methods and learn how to engage and retain your talent with our playlist of free webinars.
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.
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.
