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.
Take the LEAD! Leadership Excellence and Development Programme Launched for North Yorkshire
The Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD) Programme is tailored for small business owners who want to strengthen their leadership skills and drive business growth. Over six months, this programme covers key areas essential for your success, delivered by experts in their fields through a mix of workshops, coaching, and consultancy.
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
Top four 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.
Events
05th November 20249:30 am - 12:00 pmFREE
Unlock Business Benefits through Sustainability
Looking to enhance sustainability and reduce costs in your business? Join our Business Sustainability Peer Networks and connect with fellow local business leaders to drive real change.
12th November 20249:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Digital Marketing Workshops
These digital marketing workshops are designed to empower small businesses with essential tools and skills, helping them to take control of their marketing. We'll be sharing advice, tools and techniques to help improve your business's online presence!
13th November 202410:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Scarborough Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2025
These Tourism Business Booster workshops will help the tourism and hospitality sector located in the North Yorkshire Council region plan their marketing for 2025.
14th November 20249:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
Build a Website Workshop
If you would like to build your own website, then our ‘Build a Website’ workshop could be the ideal place to start.
19th November 202410:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Harrogate Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2025
These Tourism Business Booster workshops will help the tourism and hospitality sector located in the North Yorkshire Council region plan their marketing for 2025.
20th November 202410:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Northallerton Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2025
These Tourism Business Booster workshops will help the tourism and hospitality sector located in the North Yorkshire Council region plan their marketing for 2025.
26th November 202410:00 am - 4:00 pmFREE
Leyburn Tourism Business Booster: Marketing Planning for 2025
These Tourism Business Booster workshops will help the tourism and hospitality sector located in the North Yorkshire Council region plan their marketing for 2025.
05th December 202410:00 am - 2:00 pmFREE
Whitby Peer-to-Peer: 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.
01st January 20259:00 am - 1:00 pmFREE
Peer-to-Peer Board Sessions For Hospitality Leaders
Join the Hospitality Peer-to-Peer Programme in Scarborough from October 2024! This initiative provides a supportive network where you can share ideas, gain fresh perspectives, and collaborate with fellow business owners to drive your hospitality venture forward.
15th January 20259:30 am - 1:00 pmFREE
January: How to get higher in Google (Northallerton) [Fully Booked]
Want to make your website earn its keep and bring in new business? This programme will help you to overhaul your website and SEO, through a workshop and one-to-one support from Ink Gardener Copywriting
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
Smart Farm Business Planning - Leyburn
Is it possible to 'work smarter; not harder' in farming? This Smart Farm Business Planning workshop will look to answer just this.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
Webinar Recording: Apprenticeships Unmasked – Are they right for my business?
Are you a business owner, or part of a business team looking to boost your workforce? Apprenticeships might be the answer, but there are many myths and misconceptions out there. Our webinar, "Apprenticeships Unmasked - are they right for my business?" is designed to clear up the confusion and provide you with the facts.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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’
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
Featured Webinar Playlist: Marketing & Social Media
A free playlist of webinars focused on marketing & social media, to help you manage your business message
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 pmFREE
An introduction to sales
This webinar will help you get sales confident by providing tips and guidance on mastering important communication skills.
04th February 20259:30 am - 4:30 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.
