Business Management & Strategy

Having a transparent and well-defined business management and strategy plan for your organisation can drive success.
It helps employees understand their role and encourages a culture where everyone is pulling in the same direction. It also helps you to define your goals, identify weaknesses and understand what sets you apart from your competition.
Strategic planning also helps to ensure that your ethos and values remain at the heart of your business and that you’re consistently working with your target audience in mind. This consistency is a fantastic way to push your business in the right direction.
In addition to creating a strategic business plan for growth, there are management skills that will be key to helping you achieve. As well as business-related activities, this also encompasses people and personal skills, that will help you to communicate effectively, develop employees and make efficient use of time.
We can help you develop the necessary strategic planning skills and point you in the right direction of additional support and training where required.
We can also help you to build a coherent business strategy to encourage growth, as well as set clear and defined steps for success.
If you’re looking for business management and strategy advice and tips to set your small business or start-up on the road for success, we’ve got the resources to help. From articles and webinars to tips and training, we provide the tools to create a business plan for companies across York and North Yorkshire.
Free and impartial business advice is the name of the game here at York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub. We want to help your small business grow and a solid business strategy is the place to start!
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Articles
Say ‘I do’ to getting your side hustle tax right
HMRC’s Help for Hustles campaign is here to help side hustlers get their tax right, quickly and easily - whether that’s wedding suppliers, parents earning from a hobby business or content creators making money from posting about the latest trends online.
CardioLogic Diagnostics Wins Innovation Supper
The fifth instalment of Innovation Supper saw Faye Singleton, Director of CardioLogic Diagnostics, take home the funding after delivering a compelling pitch for her life-saving business. Winning Innovation Supper has provided CardioLogic Diagnostics with seed funding that will help tackle one of the business's biggest early challenges: marketing. The prize money will support activities such as attending industry conferences and investing in paid advertising to reach more customers and raise awareness of the importance of accessible cardiac screening.
Strive Live Start-Up Incubator: Expression of Interest for Autumn 2026
Interested in joining a future cohort of Stive Live Start-Up Incubator? Find out more about the programme below, and register your interest to secure the first places when dates are confirmed.
Resources
Webinar Recording: Protect Your Business from Cyber Attacks
Delivered by the North East Cyber Resilience Centre (NECRC), this webinar is designed to help SMEs strengthen their cyber resilience and understand the practical steps needed to protect their business from increasingly common cyber threats. Alongside this, attendees will be offered free membership of the NECRC and access to funded cyber security services.
Webinar Series: Data Protection
In this engaging and practical webinar series, Privacy Protect Group Ltd will guide you through everything you need to know to build a confident, compliant, and resilient approach to data protection in your business. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your practices, each session is designed to build your understanding step-by-step.
Farm Business Support Programme: Webinar Recordings
This programme is a designed to help farm businesses understand where they are now, where they want to be next, and how to make confident decisions in a fast-changing industry. The focus is simple: real world, farm focused business skills that can be applied straight back at home.






