A fully resourced download enabling your students to apply what they have learned and create a new product themselves. This is applied to GCSE Business AQA but can easily be ammended to another course by ammending slides 3 and 4 of the presentation. Please rate us!*

A full lesson covering Motivating Employees. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Benefits of a motivated workforce Financial Motivators Non-Financial Motivators Styles of Management BONUS worksheet activity included…

A hypothetical example using a real life change involving Toblerone. Helps students understand an often confusing topic. Please review!! :)

Segmentation This lesson looks at the following learning objectives: To understand how and why different businesses use segmentation. To learn about the various methods businesses may use to target customers. Specifically looking at: - gender - age - location - income.

The purpose and methods of market research This lesson looks at the following learning objectives: To understand why businesses conduct market research and what information is collected. To understand the types (primary/secondary) and methods of market research including: questionnaires - focus groups surveys - Internet research interviews - printed press To be able to analyse and evaluate qualitative and quantitative market research data to make informed business judgements.

This lesson will be looking at the following areas: To understand the benefits and risks of developing new products. To understand the importance of product design, image and the needs of the target market when designing new products. To learn about the product life cycle and Boston Matrix.

This activity worksheet works well to ensure that students have a good understanding of the various aspects of the Marketing Mix.

A full lesson covering Recruitment and Selection within a business. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Internal / External recruitment Stages in the recruitment process such as: Job Analysis / Job Description / Person Specification Benefits of an effective recruitment process Contract types such as Full/Part-Time, Zero hour and Job Share. BONUS worksheet activity included

A full lesson covering Organisational Structure of a business. This lesson is delivered in a clear and straightforward manner with appropriate examples to ensure student clarity. This lesson looks at the following topics: Chain of Command Delayering Delegation Tall / Flat Structures Decentralisation / Centralisation BONUS worksheet activity included that follows and example shown in the lesson.

A full lesson delivered in a way to ensure student understanding. This lesson will meet the following learning objectives: Students should be able to: analyse the benefits and drawbacks of business planning understand the reasons why businesses create plans, including importance in setting up a new business, raising finance, setting objectives and detailing - - how functions of a business will be organised understand the main sections of a business plan understand the difference between variable costs, fixed costs and total costs understand the concept of revenue, costs, profit and loss.

Learning Objectives Students should be able to understand: Job and flow production methods and understand when each is appropriate within a business context. Students should consider how production might be made more efficient by the use of lean production techniques.

Learning Objectives Students should be able to: Understand the main internal and external sources of finance available to businesses. Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of each method for a given situation Evaluate the suitability of sources of finance for new and established businesses.

Learning Objectives Students should be able to understand: the methods of good service. the benefits of good customer service the dangers of poor customer service the ways in which ICT has helped develop customer service

Lesson 1&2 - Learning Objectives Students should be able to: Understand how and why cash flow forecasts are constructed Understand the consequences of cash flow problems and the effect of positive cash flow Complete and interpret sections of a cash flow forecast (this includes an understanding of cash inflows and outflows, net cash flow and the opening and closing balance.) Evaluate possible solutions to cash flow problems, including re-scheduling payments, overdrafts, reducing cash outflow, increasing cash inflow and finding new sources of finance.

Income Statements - Learning Objectives Students should be able to: understand the importance of financial statements for assessing business performance and helping make business decisions identify the main components of the income statement and the statement of financial position Statement of Financial Position - Learning Objectives Students should be able to understand: Understand the importance of financial statements for assessing business performance and helping make business decisions Identify the main components of the income statement and the statement of financial position Understand the difference between assets and liabilities and that the statement of financial position is a snapshot in time Make judgements on the performance of a business through the interpretation of the information contained in income statements Consider current performance, performance against previous years, performance against competitors and performance from the perspective of a range of stakeholders Calculate gross profit margin and net profit margin to help assess financial performance.

Environmental Impact Lesson - Learning Objectives Students should be able to: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how business and consumers accept greater environmental responsibility in their decision making and the costs and benefits of businesses behaving this way. Identify and analyse where there may be a possible trade-off between sustainability and profit Ethical Impact Lesson - Learning Objectives Students should be able to: Students should be able to identify and analyse where there may be a possible trade off between ethics and profit. Ethical behaviour requires businesses to act in ways that stakeholders consider to be both fair and honest. Students are expected to know relevant examples of ways in which a business can behave ethically and the benefits and drawbacks of ethical behaviour.

A full lesson delivered in a way to ensure student understanding. This lesson will meet the following learning objectives: To understand the main aims and objectives for businesses including: survival, profit maximisation, growth (domestic and international), market share, customer satisfaction, social and ethical objectives and shareholder value. Understand the role of objectives in running a business and they are used Understand how and why the objectives set will differ between businesses (reasons include the size of the business, level of competition faced and type of business (not-for-profit organisations)) Understand how and why the objectives set may change as businesses evolve. Students should consider how the objectives of larger more established businesses might differ from smaller start-up businesses, e.g. becoming the dominant business in the market, international expansion, increasing shareholder value and ethical / environmental considerations Understand that the success of a business can be measured in other ways than profit.

A worksheet with a range of questions applied to a case study on PlayStation.