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Your people are your most valuable asset when running a successful business. Here you will find content relating to topics such as HR, Training, Recruitment, Fitness and Mental Health and much more.

Education, Technology

The B4 Business Podcast launches with digital debate

B4Thu 17th Oct 20191 min

B4 has launched a new monthly business podcast featuring business leaders discussing topical issues. The first episode is available now to listen to on Soundcloud presented by Emma Gascoigne from Big Foot Communications and joined by guests Frank Nigriello, Corporate Affairs Director at Unipart Group and Simon Biltcliffe, CEO of Webmart. In the 20 minute podcast, Frank and Simon discuss the opportunities and threats of digitalisation and stress the importance of working with schools to help plug the digital skills gap.

Local Government, Networking

OV Blue Paper Handover

B4Fri 27th Sep 20193 min

Oxfordshire Voice and some of the key founding members of the organisation have been meeting recently to mark an important and symbolic event.

Networking

Engaging The Next Generation

B4Fri 27th Sep 20192 min

Oxfordshire Voice has been set up to find solutions for the key challenges facing Oxfordshire businesses. Whilst many solutions have and are being implemented by businesses on a daily basis (flexible working, car pooling etc….) to overcome these challenges, larger policy related changes may well take years to implement.

Education | Oxfordshire

New business and education partnership will help to close the Oxfordshire...

Activate LearningFri 27th Sep 20194 min

Over 3,000 creative and digital sector businesses are based in Oxfordshire, generating a total of £1.4billion to the UK economy each year. With such an important and rapidly evolving sector, it is vital for business and education to work together to drive progress and innovation.

Coaching | Oxfordshire

Building a more resilient, purposeful and attractive business

B4 NewsdeskFri 27th Sep 20197 min

More businesses are recognising that embedding purpose into their businesses and having more positive social and environmental impact is essential for a successful and financially sustainable business. But why should you and how can you?

Education, Health | Oxfordshire

Inspiring employees to make positive changes; Good for them, Good for...

B4 NewsdeskFri 27th Sep 20195 min

The old-fashioned way to show employees they were appreciated was to take them out and pour as much alcohol down their throats as possible. Well this is certainly my experience from working in the City from the late 80’s through to the early 2000’s.

EDI, Education, HR | Oxfordshire

You HR Consultancy celebrates 10th Anniversary

You ConsultancyFri 27th Sep 20192 min

You HR Consultancy recently celebrated their tenth anniversary in style with an event at Sticks ‘n’ Sushi in Oxford.

Coaching | Oxfordshire

The significance of Social Enterprise

B4 NewsdeskFri 27th Sep 20195 min

Social Enterprise UK, the national body supporting Social Enterprise, awarded Oxfordshire the accolade of becoming the first Social Enterprise “County” in recognition of the “hot bed” of social enterprise and social entrepreneurs we have locally.

Coaching, Local Government | Oxfordshire

Getting Your Bright Idea To Market Requires Help

Enterprise OxfordshireFri 27th Sep 20195 min

Rod Macrae looks at a programme that’s helping small businesses with innovative ideas

Networking

B4 is More Than Networking

B4Mon 29th Jul 20192 min

We’ve often wondered what makes B4 stand out from the crowd, and after many years we feel we might finally have the answer: B4 is more than networking.

EDI, Education, HR | Oxfordshire

The Team Behind You HR

You ConsultancyMon 29th Jul 20192 min

This year You HR Consultancy will celebrate its 10th anniversary! Started in 2009 by Jonna Mundy, the team has grown from strength to strength and boasts a diverse community of 13 employees.

Education, Training | Oxfordshire

European football is about more than just the big leagues

B4 NewsdeskMon 29th Jul 20196 min

UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin on fairness, competition, and keeping in touch with reality

Networking, Venues

BIO2019 Official Recap

B4Mon 29th Jul 20194 min

BIO2019 Encapsulates the Vibrancy of Oxfordshire’s Business Community

Education, Health | Oxfordshire

Investing in your long term health

B4 NewsdeskMon 29th Jul 20193 min

Since the summer before studying for my degree in nutrition some 16 years ago through to now, I have been contracted by the Nutrition Society and [since the outsourcing of publications] Cambridge University Press to work on four of the world’s leading Nutritional Science journals.