Training in your Business
Knowing where to start with training your staff can be difficult. You might know the day-to-day tasks that they need to be able to do – and they might already have the skills to do them – but what about the training that will develop them further? How can you identify what skills could help them do their job even better? We have a range of resources to help you get started, covering how to identify staff’s training needs and finding the time to train staff, and links to training courses such as skills bootcamps, digital skills training, and national programmes.
Training information and resources
Where to start with building a training programme that both serves your business and develops your staff.
These national resources support a range of training opportunities for staff at different levels.
How to find the time to train staff
As a business owner, you may be wondering how you will find the time to train staff.
Skills Bootcamps offer a wide range of courses reflecting the diverse needs of the modern economy.
The learning toolkit helps individuals and businesses access the knowledge they need to progress and grow.
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
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.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Today (Monday 10 May) marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.
Introducing our new series of free Leadership webinars!
As part of our online business support webinar programme, we are delighted to be partnering with Michelle Mook, Managing Director of Pro-Development, to deliver a series of nine Leadership webinars starting on 26 November.
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: 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: 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.
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.
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 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.
Free webinar: COVID-19 and the workplace - helping you stay safe
This free webinar on Covid-19 and the workplace will look at how to embed behaviours and measures to help everyone work safely.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.