Webinars
Free webinar: Managing Cash Flow in a Crisis
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) to give practical advice about how you can manage you cash during this crisis, as well as put systems in place for the future.
Free webinar: Social media series - mastering the basics
This free webinar is an ideal introduction to social media, including choosing the right channels for your business and how to get started.
Free webinar: Social media series - planning and creating great content
This free webinar is ideal if you know the basics of social media but want to know more about creating engaging content for your business.
Free webinar: Social media series - growing your social media presence
This free webinar is ideal if you want to go deeper into using social media, including building your audience, ads and analytics.
Free webinar: Leader series - engaging your virtual team
This free one-hour webinar will help you develop and refine your skills in engaging and getting the best out of your remote teams.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading through change and adversity
This free one-hour webinar will help you develop and refine your communication skills to deliver strong leadership through change.
Free webinar: KTPs – how to get academic insight and experience into your business
Effective management and leadership can be the difference between companies that thrive and those that fail.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading your team into recovery
This free one-hour webinar will help you plan your next steps including bringing back furloughed workers and developing new ways of working.
Free webinar: Using LinkedIn to expand your network and attract new opportunities
This free webinar explores how to use LinkedIn to promote yourself and your business to attract the clients and opportunities that you want.
Free webinar: Leader series - leading with purpose
This free one-hour webinar will help you with strategies to mean that your team feels connected, can contribute and have a sense of purpose.
Free webinar: Attracting talent in a virtual recruitment market
This one hour workshop will enable business leaders to better understand the virtual recruitment landscape and maximise the opportunities.
Free webinar: New funding opportunities for skills training and the Kickstart scheme
This free webinar will clarify the recent government funding schemes for skills training aimed at providing workplace opportunities for young people.
Free webinar: How micro and small business leaders can be key to economic recovery
This free webinar for micro and small businesses provides practical advice and insights on how to navigate and shape the future beyond Covid.
Digital Security: Keeping Your Business Secure Online
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to provide practical advice on keeping your business secure online during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.
How to manage staff remotely
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Thrive Law to provide practical advice on how to negotiate the challenges of managing staff remotely.
How to conduct a fair redundancy process
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Thrive Law to provide practical advice on how to conduct a fair redundancy process.
Improving your website’s search engine rankings
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Intandem Communications to explain how search optimisation works and why it is so important for businesses today.
What is Content Marketing and why do you need it?
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up Intandem Communications to explain the importance of content marketing and how it can help you to attract and keep customers.
Leadership Series: Leading your team with purpose
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to provide tools and techniques to set achievable goals and bring values to life for your team that will inspire them to deliver.
Leadership Series: Leading authentically and how to inspire others
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to help give leaders the confidence to lead authentically and in a way that inspires those around them.
Leadership Series: Leading through Change and Adversity
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with Michelle Mook to help leaders understand how to communicate for buy-in and work with a strategy and approach to support and embed change.
Business Development Series: Find your path - reshape your business for a recession
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with business coach Gareth Allen to pose some useful questions to ask yourself, and give you some ideas to make changes.
Start-Up Business Basics Series: Show me the money - A Guide to The Funding Options Available to New Businesses
The York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub have teamed up with business coach Gareth Allen for a free webinar which will act as a useful primer for new and early stage businesses on the funding options that are available for them now and in the future.
Webinar: Maximising your ShopAppy membership with free online marketing support
In partnership with marketing agencies Intandem Communications and Pick & Mix Marketing, this webinar will explain how businesses can maximise their membership during, and beyond, lockdown and introduce the programme of support that is going to be available for businesses.
Webinar: Changes in employees' terms and conditions and restructures.
This webinar with managing director of Thrive Law, Jodie Hill will consider how to restructure a business, and how to vary an employees’ terms and conditions with fair consultation.
Webinar: Conflict – why it’s important and how to manage it.
This free webinar with leadership expert Suzanne Courtney will support leaders in understanding why healthy conflict is important for creating high performing teams and how to manage it.
Webinar: None of us are superhuman - maintaining positive mental health and wellbeing in difficult times
This free webinar will explore the definition of mental health and wellbeing, what happens in our brain when we experience significant change and some of the common signs of low mental wellbeing. It will look at tools and resources that can improve mental wellbeing during times of extreme change.
Webinar: Cash is King - How to Forecast Cash Flow
This free webinar with business coach Gareth Allen will provide attendees with a better understanding of the importance of cash within a business.
Webinar: Creating great social media content to promote your business and your ShopAppy listing
This free webinar is designed for businesses across York and North Yorkshire who currently have a ShopAppy membership or are considering joining the platform. In this webinar, local marketing experts will teach you how to create great social media content to promote your business and your ShopAppy listing.
Webinar: Building the Foundations - Doing the Right Thing in Year One.
This webinar with business coach Gareth Allen will pose some useful questions to ask yourself, and give you some ideas to do the basics right.
Webinar: How to manage a fair disciplinary and grievance process when doing it remotely.
This webinar with managing director of Thrive Law, Jodie Hill will discuss how to remotely conduct a disciplinary and grievance process.
Webinar: Know your Numbers.
This webinar with managing director of Business Works UK, Joanne Tomlinson will help small business owners understand the terminology and usefulness of different kinds of financial information.
Webinar: How Much? - A Guide to Setting your Prices at the Right Level.
This free webinar with business coach Gareth Allen will discuss different pricing methods including cost based pricing and market based pricing.
Webinar: Holding Honest Conversations.
This webinar with Michelle Mook will provide a structured approach to delivering a successful message and provide techniques to ensure you are thoroughly prepared emotionally to hold an honest conversation..
Webinar: Understanding your Market - Unlocking the potential of your business.
This webinar with tourism marketing expert John Gallery will assist businesses to identify their target markets and share ideas how to reach them.
Social Media Series - Mastering the Basics
This webinar focuses on how businesses can use the power of social media to their benefit.
Leadership Series - Is Emotional Intelligence important in leadership?
This online session with Michelle Mook will provide tools and techniques to help you to develop empathy and establish interpersonal relationships
Social Media Series - Planning and creating great content.
In the second in a series of social media webinars, Intandem Communications will focus on how you can create and plan great content for your business.
Leadership Series: Building resilience and supporting team wellbeing
This online session with Michelle Mook will provide you with tools and techniques to build resilience and increase positivity and the wellbeing of your team.
Social Media Series: Growing your social media following
This free webinar will guide attendees through how to build your social media audience, and discuss how to use adverts and analytics.
Wellbeing Series: Supporting return to work
This free webinar with the University of York will introduce a return to work toolkit for managers and team members.
Leadership Series: Empowering your team – learning to delegate and let go
This free webinar will help leaders consider what gets in the way of delegation and how important it is to empower the team to deliver on your behalf.
Immigration webinar: Living, working and studying in the UK after Brexit
This free webinar with the Home Office provides details of the new immigration system post Brexit, what it means for your business and for those living, working and studying in the UK
Start-up webinar: Is starting a business right for you?
This webinar will help you understand what is involved in self-employment and starting a new business, as well as other aspects you need to consider including is there a demand for your idea and is now the time right to commence your journey into business?
Management webinar: Engaging and supporting a hybrid team
This webinar will help you to lead a remote or hybrid team, and identify ways to engage and support both the team and individuals in order to promote communication, productivity, and success.
Webinar: Capitalising on your social media impacts
This webinar will provide you with guidance on how to move ahead with your marketing strategies in our current climate, to ensure that you maximise on the opportunities presented by new social media trends in 2021 and beyond.
Free webinar: Access to finance for your business
This webinar will identify and explain the sources of financial support for new businesses, guiding you through the process of cash flow management as a start-up in the wake of COVID-19 and the years to come.
Free webinar: Resilient Leadership
This webinar will help you to build your own and your team's resilience, providing you with the tools to help you respond, change, and evolve in the face of our current ever-shifting circumstances.
Webinar: The SME cyber threat landscape
This webinar will bring awareness to the growing risk of cyber attacks and keep you informed about how to deal with the online threats that SMEs face.
Free agricultural webinar: Preparing for change pt. 1
This free webinar with Agricultural Business Training (ABT) will help you understand how income could be affected by change, what opportunities lie ahead in the agricultural industry, and where you can gain further information and support.
Free Webinar : What International Opportunities Await Your Business?
Embarking on your international growth journey can be difficult, but with we want to guide you through the process as you look towards new markets.
Free webinar: Cyber risk - what's it all about?
This webinar will examine cyber security, identify its impact on organisations and businesses, and understand how to protect against online risks.
Free Webinar : Cyber security for start-up businesses
This webinar will explore the cyber security essentials every start-up business should know: the types of threats out there, the measures available to you to prevent attacks, and how to defend yourself effectively against cyber crime without breaking the bank.
Free Webinar : Creating and delivering business growth
This webinar explores how to manage and achieve your business' growth aspirations by looking at and prioritising the activities that are key to success.
Free Webinar : Show Me The Money!
This webinar guides you through the funding options that are available to new and early-stage businesses, to help your business thrive now and in the future.
Free agricultural webinar 2: Preparing for change - Farm business basics
This free webinar with Agricultural Business Training (ABT) will help you increase your basic farm business skills, financial knowledge and enable you to gain a better understanding of VAT categories and how to comply with future legislative changes.
Free Webinar - Customer Retention Marketing
This webinar will provide you with practical tips to help you retain your customers and build a relationship with your audience.
Free agricultural webinar 3: Preparing for change - Farm business basics
This free webinar with Agricultural Business Training (ABT) will help you gain a deeper understanding of farm business accounts and terminology, and how to generate detailed management accounts, as well as tools for future planning and changes to agricultural policy.
Free Webinar : How to be a LinkedIn 'All-Star'
This webinar will explore how you can use LinkedIn as a part of your social media strategy, helping you to create connections and make an excellent first impression.
Free Webinar: Nine to thrive - employee wellness and engagement
This webinar will explore the benefits of supporting mental health in the workplace, and help business leaders and managers understand alternative ways to attract and retain key talent in your business.
Free Webinar : Creating healthy work life boundaries
This webinar will help leaders and managers to understand how to set healthy workplace boundaries, create a positive work culture, and improve performance by valuing relationships and trust.
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.
An introduction to sales
This webinar will help you get sales confident by providing tips and guidance on mastering important communication skills.
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.
Grow Yorkshire: Introduction to Food and Drink Commercial Agreement
This Grow Yorkshire webinar, featuring presentations from partnering organisations, will introduce you to the new Crown Commercial Service Food and Drink Agreement and discuss how it can help you join the supply chain.
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.
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: Recruitment and retention
Attract talent, improve your recruitment methods and learn how to engage and retain your talent with our playlist of free webinars.
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: Digital skills
Learn how to engage with social media to boost visibility, generate leads and customer engagement online, and stay safe online whilst doing business with our free digital skills webinar playlist.
Featured Webinar Playlist: Supercharge your start-up
Supercharge your start-up with our free webinar playlist, covering topics such as finance, marketing, networking, social media, sales and more.
Seminar Recording : Getting Stuff Done
Discover strategies to keep on top of your work and stay organised in this recorded seminar with Gareth Allen of GAP Coaching.
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: Growth & Resilience
A free playlist of webinars focused on growth and resilience, covering issues such as leadership, planning, team wellbeing and actions to take during tougher economic conditions
Featured Webinar Playlist: Finance
A free playlist of webinars focused on finance, including business basics such as forecasting cash flow and setting prices, as well as ways to fund your growth
Featured Webinar Playlist: Navigating HR & Legal Issues
A free playlist of webinars focused on HR & legal issues, including videos on employment law and employee terms and conditions
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’
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.
Webinar Recordings : Writing a Business Plan and Cashflow Forecast
These recorded webinars cover two topics essential to business, especially when applying for grants or loans - business plans and cashflow forecasts.
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.
Webinar Recordings : Making the leap: are you ready to start a business?
If you think you're ready to start a business, check out this exciting webinar where we'll find out what it’s really like to take the leap. Hosted by the team who bring you the Strive Live Start-Up Incubator.
Webinar Recording: Setting Your Social Media Objectives
As part of a six-part social media webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi, this webinar looks at how setting objectives can support your business.
Webinar Recording: How to create Engaging Content
As part of a six-part social media webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi, this webinar will look at how to create engaging content.
Webinar Recording: Getting started on LinkedIn
As part of a six-part social media webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi, this webinar looks at getting started on LinkedIn for your business.
Webinar Recordings: Unlocking Commercial Potential: Strategic Tools and Insights for Business Growth
Join us for an in-depth exploration into commercialisation strategies designed to drive business success. This interactive session will delve into essential topics such as market analysis, customer profiling, and strategic planning techniques. You’ll learn how to identify commercial opportunities, engage stakeholders, and create value for your customers, all while assessing the impact of these actions on your brand, both internally and externally.
Webinar Recording: Getting started on Instagram
As part of a six-part social media webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi, this webinar looks at getting started on Instagram for your business.
Webinar Recording: Getting started on Facebook
As part of a six-part social media webinar series delivered by Caroline Wilson of Hot Toddi, this webinar looks at getting started on Facebook for your business.
Webinar: Inclusion Training for Hospitality and Retail Businesses
Join us for an essential webinar to boost your business by embracing inclusivity. This session will cover key areas like disability awareness, inclusive communication, the impact of the Equality Act, and the potential of the “Purple Pound”—a market worth billions in untapped spending power. This session, delivered by Rachel Barber of Living 4 Moments, serves as an introduction to inclusivity topics and how they can be applied to customer-facing businesses – supporting your customers, staff, and bottom line.
