People & Skills
Events
03rd October 202310:30 am - 1:30 pmFREE
Oct/Nov: Harrogate & Ripon Peer-to-Peer programme (Fully subscribed)
Would you like to opportunity to discuss your business’s challenges and successes with a group of other business people from your local area?Are you interested in being part of a dynamic and collaborative business network that is determined to pursue success, growth and innovation, even when times are tough?
05th October 20239:00 am - 2:30 pmFREE
5 Oct - Recruitment and Retention Reimagined
Connect with other local businesses and hear from top recruitment and retention specialists about how to boost your chances of success.
16th October 20238:45 am - 3:00 pmFREE
16 Oct: Digital Transformation Day in Scarborough
Join us at the Digital Transformation Day at Scarborough TEC on 16th October to gain the knowledge and strategies needed to boost your business's online presence and connect with your audience like never before.
17th October 20238:45 am - 3:00 pmFREE
17 Oct: Digital Transformation Day in Pickering
Join us at the Digital Transformation Day at Pickering Memorial Hall on 17th October to gain the knowledge and strategies needed to boost your business's online presence and connect with your audience like never before.
18th October 20238:00 am - 9:30 amFREE
18 Oct - Explore Your Unique Strengths & Abilities
This session will help you and your business understand the preferences and behaviours of yourself, your colleagues & your customers. You'll discover the power of asking the right questions and gain different perspectives on creating solutions.
26th October 202310:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
October-November 2023 - Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2024
Following the success of last year's events, the Growth Hub will again be working with The Tourism Business to provide workshops to the tourism and hospitality sector to plan their marketing for 2024.
06th November 202310:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
6 Nov: The Courageous Females Programme (Fully Subscribed)
For Women in Business (owners or their teams) who want to reach their potential and enjoy higher levels of confidence and resilience.
06th December 202310:00 am - 2:30 pmFREE
6 Dec: Peer-to-peer Support Programme - Your Small Business Board
Does running a business feel isolating and hard at times? Do you struggle to make decisions or overcome challenges? The Small Business Board is designed with ambitious owners in mind and who are ready to take the next step, whatever that may be.
2022 Seminar Recordings
We have recently hosted a programme of in-person seminars and other events, some of which were professionally recorded and can now be viewed on our website.
Seminar Recording : Menopause Wellbeing in the Workplace
This recorded seminar looks 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’
Featured Webinar Playlist: Marketing & Social Media
A free playlist of webinars focused on marketing & social media, to help you manage your business message
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.
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.
Articles
Top five barriers to creativity in business
Creativity in business can come in many forms – so can barriers to creativity! 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
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.
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.
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.
How to find the time to train staff
As a business owner, you will have many things on your plate and may be wondering how you will find the time to train staff.
Tips for creating a happier workforce
A happier workforce is often more productive, which is better for your business.
Returning from maternity leave top tips for employers
Returning from maternity or parental leave can be...
