🌍 Workshop Series: Retain First. Recruit Stronger Later (Scarborough)
A practical 3 workshop programme to help small businesses keep their best people now, and build recruitment readiness for when the time is right.
In the current climate, many organisations are restructuring and making efficiencies. When headcount is tight and roles are shifting, the smartest move is often to retain your best people, stabilise your team, and protect productivity, before you push hard on hiring again.
This three-part workshop series is designed to help you strengthen retention and engagement now, by improving how you support, develop and keep your people, while also putting the foundations in place so that when you’re ready to recruit in the future, you can do it with clarity and confidence.
What you’ll walk away with:
- Practical, real-world approaches to retention, engagement, development and culture.
- A clearer Employee Value Proposition (EVP) so your best people know why they should stay.
- Support for common pressure points like flexible working, pay pressures and long-term absence.
- A tailored 12–18 month action plan that helps you retain now, and recruit better later.
The 3 workshops:
Workshop 1 – Retaining, Developing and Engaging Your People
This is the retention-focused session: EVP, sustainable reward (including non-financial benefits), flexible working, engagement, inclusive culture, development and progression — plus a tailored 12–18 month action plan and simple metrics to track progress.
Workshop 2 – Diagnose & Design Your Recruitment and Retention Strategy
Get clear on where you are now, what’s working, what’s costing you (time, money, momentum), and build a practical recruitment & retention framework you can apply immediately.
Workshop 3 – Attracting and Hiring the Right People (Inclusive Recruitment & Onboarding)
Even if you’re not hiring today, this session gets you recruitment-ready for when the time is right — with inclusive recruitment best practice, stronger job adverts, the right channels, a lean process, and onboarding that supports early retention.
Workshop Details
📍 Scarborough, Woodend Gallery
🕐 9:30am – 12:30pm
- Wednesday 11 February
- Wednesday 18 March
- Wednesday 22 April
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This support is available to businesses within York and North Yorkshire, if your business is based outside our region, visit Business.gov.uk and search your postcode to find your local alternative.