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How to Write a Business Plan Part 2: Implementation and Growth

First published at https://businessdoctors.co.uk/business-planning/ Management Team and Structure Your business is a system where every part impacts the others. Change...

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How to Write a Business Plan Part 1: The Foundation

First published at https://businessdoctors.co.uk/business-planning/ Why do You Need a Business Plan? A business plan provides a clear outline of the...

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Malta Enterprise New Growth Grant Schemes: Empowering Your Business Expansion

Introduction Malta Enterprise (ME) has recently introduced several schemes to support enterprise growth, focusing on planned expansion rather than business...

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Revitalizing Business Strategies for Growth

First published at https://businessdoctors.co.uk/planning-for-a-successful-year/   For businesses stuck in stagnant routines, breaking free from the “Owner’s Trap” is essential. This...

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Prioritizing Mental Health for Business Success

First published at https://businessdoctors.co.uk/planning-for-a-successful-year/   Entrepreneurship, which is often glamorized, can be mentally taxing. The link between mental health and...

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Developing a Business Growth Strategy

A business growth strategy serves as the cornerstone for expanding your business, fostering evolution, increasing market share, and addressing heightened...

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Three Strategies to Escape the Owner's Trap

Streamline Your Offering: To avoid the expense of a high-salaried replacement, narrow down your core offering instead of trying to...

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Escaping the Owner's Trap

This article was first published at https://businessdoctors.co.uk/the-six-tentacles-of-the-owners-trap/   Many business owners seek freedom when they start their venture, but the...

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Navigating Internal Politics: Strengthening Relationships and Effectiveness with the Help of Training

Internal politics can be a challenging aspect of any company, impacting relationships, communication, and overall effectiveness of employees. Navigating these...

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Developing Leaders from Within: The Role of Training in Leadership Development

Developing effective leaders is crucial for organisational success in today’s dynamic business environment. While some individuals possess natural leadership skills,...

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Why is Training Important to Develop Strategic Thinking in your Employees?

Training plays a crucial role in developing strategic thinking skills among employees, enabling them to analyse complex situations, make informed...

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Employee Training and Talent Development for Improved Communication

Effective communication is a cornerstone of success in any company. Clear and efficient communication fosters collaboration, boosts productivity, and enhances...

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Investing in Growth: The Value of Training and Developing Employee Talent

Investing in the growth and development of employees’ talent is no longer a choice in today’s highly competitive company world;...

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People and Payroll

The Value of Training and Developing Employee Talent

Investing in the growth and development of employees’ talent is no longer a choice in today’s highly competitive company world;...

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Key Do’s and Don'ts for Accurate Payroll

Payroll is a critical component of every organization, and it must be done right. Payroll accuracy guarantees that employees receive...

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When should you start looking for payroll outsourcing?

When it comes to outsourcing payroll, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. The best time to start looking for an outsourcing...

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What are the Benefits of Outsourcing Payroll?

Payroll outsourcing is a service provided by Business Doctors that offers support to local companies to guarantee that employees receive...

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What is a Business Mentor Coach?

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, the majority of business owners all over the world have faced major stress. For employees...

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Sales as part of your business strategy

A sales strategy is a well-defined and mapped-out plan aimed at selling products or services and increasing revenues. A sales...

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How Leadership Skills and Communication can Motivate your Employees

In the previous post, we looked at the importance of leadership skills and how they can be improved. This blog...

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The Importance of Strong Leadership Skills for Business Owners

For any business, having a business strategy is crucial as it defines the company by assigning its values and goals...

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Are Staffing Issues Impeding your Business Growth?

Most businesses often employ a small number of people and are run by a small team. Having a larger number...

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Financial challenges faced by SMEs in 2022

In previous blog posts we have been looking into various key challenges being faced by business owners in 2022, including...

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Employee Engagement – Current Challenges with Managing Talent in your Business

How can your business attract and retain the best talent and improve existing relationships with your employees? Having talent on...

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Learn how to Effectively Manage your Supply Chain

As we move forward through 2022 a major challenge currently being faced by businesses is with managing their supply chain...

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Employee Engagement – Recruiting and Retaining Talent in a Growing Business

Struggling to retain the best talent and grow your team to move your company forward? Employees are an organisation’s lifeblood....

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Adjusting to the New Normal- How is Your Sector Performing?

These past two years brought with them a lot of new lessons and learnings. Many business sectors faced various challenges...

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EU Funding Schemes in a Nutshell

Many business owners ask: What funding schemes are available? For which funding scheme should I apply for in relation to...

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Are EU and Government Funding Schemes Worth the Hassle?

Throughout the series of EU and Government Funding related blog posts which were published over previous months, we have looked...

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Restarting your Business – Emerging Better and Stronger

  With the recent ease in regulations and other markets also slowly returning back to normality, business owners are eager...

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What are the steps for applying to EU/Government Funded Projects?

Through the previous funding related blog posts we have looked into what type of projects can be eligible for funding.In...

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How are You and Your Team Feeling?

Following the struggles and challenges over the past year with remote work also taking precedence, Business Doctors would like you...

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What other projects can I fund?

Growth, Diversification, Internationalization or Skills and Knowledge projects were the four project categories discussed in our previous post discussing what...

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What can I fund?

In the previous post, we looked at different types of funding but the main question to ask when looking at...

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Different Types of Funding

Despite knowing that funding possibilities are available but not being aware of the different types of funding your business could...

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Check in with Yourself and Your Business

What’s your Feel Good Factor? Running a business while juggling various other aspects can be a challenge, which has increasingly...

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An Introduction to EU and Government Funding

Through various schemes the European Union (EU) and local government provide funding opportunities for a wide range of projects covering...

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Navigating the New Normal

Feeling overwhelmed and anxious is common as one tries to navigate around the new normal. Businesses have started recommencing operation...

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Enterprise Incentives Mobile Application

In today’s day and age, it is understood that small and medium-sized businesses are crucial to the local economy. Plenty...

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Flexibility at Work

Benefits of flexibility at the work-place The possibility of having flexible working hours is becoming increasingly important in today’s hectic...

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The Silver Lining of the GDPR Effects for SMEs

Over the past few months, we have all been receiving numerous emails on our accounts from various companies and sites...

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GDPR Simplified

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a directive that requires all companies to safeguard and protect any personal data...

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How to Avoid Falling into the Business Owner’s Trap

Some view having your own business as liberating and relieving, away from the clutches and monotony of being in a...

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The Importance of Good Succession Planning for Business Survivals

How dependent on you is your business? Would it operate as efficiently without your constant presence? Such questions are not...

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3 Key Factors to Successful Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is an essential dogma for successful businesses. However, just creating a great plan does not mean that it...

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The Importance of Assessing Staff Engagement within Your Company

Having strong engagement within a company yields better results in general! It helps with building bonds and strong relationships between...

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Excelling at the Foundations of Your Business

As Business Doctors, a common question we are asked by business owners and directors who are looking to grow and...

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10 Steps for Successful Business Growth

Lewis Carroll once said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” and at Business...

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Thinking About Building Your Own Startup?

Starting your own business from scratch is highly challenging but extremely rewarding nonetheless. It is a life-long commitment that requires...

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Finding purpose in what you do!

Sometimes it may seem like you are putting in long hours and hard work splashing out cash more quickly than...

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Best Recruitment Practices for a Growing Business

Your employees are the backbone of your company especially when running a small business, and hiring someone who’s not right...

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Retaining Motivation Throughout the Year

We’re more than half way through 2017 which means that half the business year is already behind us. At the...