Recruiting staff
Find out how to recruit the right people to the right roles in your business. We have a range of webinars on recruitment, as well as specific information on apprenticeships. And you can also find out more about developing the right leadership and management skills to create the culture that retains staff once you’ve recruited them.
Resources to support recruitment
Apprenticeships and other programmes
Find out more about apprenticeships, traineeships and T-levels.
Attracting talent in a virtual recruitment market
This workshop will help business leaders to better understand the virtual recruitment landscape.
Recruiting work-ready individuals
Programmes and resources to help you attract those ready and looking for work to your business.
Recruitment and retention webinars
These free webinars can help you with attracting talent, the recruitment process and ways to help retain your staff.
Build leadership and management skills and a culture that the right people will want to be part of.
Employers’ Apprenticeship Toolkit
Download the employer’s apprenticeship toolkit to learn how apprenticeship training can link to your aspirations.
Secure your place: Business Support Programmes 2024
The Growth Hub is hard at work curating a new package of business support programmes for 2024. The programmes will be available to businesses located in North Yorkshire, funded by North Yorkshire Council’s Shared Prosperity Fund.
Growth Hub Welcomes New Business Advisors for North Yorkshire
We are delighted to announce the addition of three new team members who will play a crucial role in supporting local businesses and entrepreneurs as business advisors for North Yorkshire.
Leadership Coaching: Becoming The Leader You Want To Be
In this article, Halina will explore the challenges facing leaders and how leadership coaching can help.
Understanding What Makes Employees Tick and Building a Thriving Business
In this article, we will explore the importance of understanding what makes employees tick and how it contributes to building a thriving business.
Engineering recruitment boosted at ISF
With the help of The Apprenticeship Hub, the team has broadened their offer of engineering recruitment and established new career paths for apprentices.
Four issues key to social enterprise survival
Social enterprises face a unique and complex series of issues. To ensure the long-term health and survival of your social enterprise, an understanding of these issues is vital. In this article, I will summarise four key areas you need to consider: sources of funding, governance considerations, the power of people, and sustainable growth.
Horizon Scanning: Four questions social enterprises need to answer
With so much going on in the present, it’s not always easy to look to the future. However, the identification of potential risks and opportunities is vital to the long-term health of any business, and social enterprises are no different. Horizon scanning helps in assessing whether you are adequately prepared for future changes or threats.
Skills Bootcamps will support more than 1,000 residents
A new skills programme is being launched across York and North Yorkshire.
The Benefits of Local Business Networking
Building relationships with other businesses through local business networking 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
Supporting employee wellbeing in hybrid workplaces
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges for workplaces. With many offices having to adjust to a partial / hybrid or full work from home (WFH) system, the need to protect mental wellbeing became all the more apparent. Keeping on top of your mental health while working from home is helpful in making a comfortable shift
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 – 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
Events
15th May 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
15 May - Neurodiversity in the Workplace at Co-lab Harrogate
Join C4DI in Selby to explore recruiting and supporting neurodiversity in the workplace. Delivered by Speak! Training & Consulting.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
24 June - Neurodiversity in the Workplace at Whitby Coliseum
Join C4DI in Whitby to explore recruiting and supporting neurodiversity in the workplace. Delivered by Speak! Training & Consulting.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
Webinar Recording : Creating Videos for Your Business
Daniel Pingstone of Fly Flow Media recently delivered two webinars in partnership, looking at how to create videos for both products and service based businesses. In this condensed recording, Dan covers the content shared in each of those sessions.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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’
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
Featured Webinar Playlist: Marketing & Social Media
A free playlist of webinars focused on marketing & social media, to help you manage your business message
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
An introduction to sales
This webinar will help you get sales confident by providing tips and guidance on mastering important communication skills.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
24th June 20241:00 pm - 4:00 pmFREE
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.
