Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
This is a NEW BLUE FRONT SLIDE version
It is a complete lesson including a PPT and a worksheet. It is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
a) Sources of finance:
o family and friends
o banks
o peer-to-peer funding
o business angels
o crowd funding
o other businesses
b) Methods of finance:
o loans
o share capital
o venture capital
o overdrafts
o leasing
o trade credit
o grants
This is a NEW BLUE FRONT SLIDE version
It is a complete lesson including a PPT and a worksheet. It is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
It covers these topics:
a) Owner’s capital: personal savings
b) Retained profit
c) Sale of assets
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The impact of current legislation on recruitment and employment
Discrimination, employees’ right to contract, holidays, hours of work
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
Different training methods
Induction, on-the-job, off-the-job
Why businesses train their workers
Development of the business, improve productivity, skill shortages, customer service, motivation and retention
Staff development
Vocational and academic qualifications, apprenticeships
The benefits to employees and businesses of staff development
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
Financial methods of motivation
Pay, bonuses, profit sharing, fringe benefits
Non-financial methods of motivation
Praise, award schemes, working environment
The importance of employee motivation
Improved employee performance, helps employee retention
The importance of employee retention
Already familiar with business and customers, saves time and expense of recruitment
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
Why businesses recruit
Replace employees who leave, business growth, skill gaps
Methods of selection
CV, application form, letter of application, interviews, tests, group activities, references
The use of different recruitment methods to meet different business needs
Internal methods, external methods, job description and person specification
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
To be able to describe different ways of communicating in a business context:
Letter
Email
Text
Phone
Meeting / presentation
Social media
Website
To be able to discuss the importance of business communications
To be able to discuss the influence of digital communication on business activity
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The terminology of organisation charts
Span of control, chain of command, delegation, subordinates, authority
Different organisational structures
Tall, flat
Why businesses have different organisational structures
Importance of effective communication, different job roles and responsibilities, different ways of working
Ways of working
Full-time, part-time, flexible working, temporary work, working from home, working whilst mobile, self-employed
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The purpose of human resources in business
Identifying and meeting the human resource needs of a business
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This topic has been divided into 4 separate lessons
This resource covers the following topics:
The ‘four Ps’ of the marketing mix and their importance
• Product
• Product - stages of the product life cycle
• Pricing methods
• Promotion - point of sale
• Promotion - advertising
• Place - distribution of products and services
• How the four Ps of the marketing mix work together
• The use of the marketing mix to inform and implement
business decisions
• Interpretation of market data
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The use of segmentation to target customers
Age
Gender
Income
Location
Lifestyle
(Or GAILL for short!)
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The purpose of market research
Identifying and understanding customer needs
Primary research methods
Questionnaires, interviews, trialling, focus groups
Secondary research sources
Newspapers and magazines, census, websites and internal data
How appropriate different methods and sources of market research are for different purposes
The use and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data in market research
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
To be able to discuss the purpose of marketing within business:
The importance to a business of identifying and understanding its customers, informing customers, increasing sales
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
Organic growth
Increasing output, gaining new customers, developing new products, increasing market share
External growth
Mergers, takeovers – including horizontal and vertical, diversification
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.1 The role of business enterprise - FREE
1.2 Business planning
1.3 Business ownership
1.4 Business aims and objectives
1.5 Stakeholders
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The roles and objectives of internal and external stakeholder groups
Owners, employees, customers, suppliers, government and the local community
The effect business activity has on stakeholders
The effect stakeholders have on business
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.1 The role of business enterprise - FREE
1.2 Business planning
1.3 Business ownership
1.4 Business aims and objectives
1.6 Business Growth
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The aims and objectives of a business
Profit, survival, growth, providing a service, market share
How and why objectives may change as businesses evolve
Why different businesses may have different objectives
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.1 The role of business enterprise - FREE
1.2 Business planning
1.3 Business ownership
1.5 Stakeholders
1.6 Business Growth
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The concept of limited liability
The features of different types of business ownership
Sole traders, partnerships, private and public limited companies
The suitability of differing types of ownership in different business contexts
Start-ups and established businesses
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.1 The role of business enterprise - FREE
1.2 Business planning
1.4 Business aims and objectives
1.5 Stakeholders
1.6 Business Growth
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
To be able to describe the purpose of planning as a business activity
Reducing risk, helping a business to succeed
To be able to discuss the role, importance and usefulness of a business plan
Identifying markets, help with obtaining finance, identifying resources a business needs to operate, achieving business aims and objectives
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.1 The role of business enterprise - FREE
1.3 Business ownership
1.4 Business aims and objectives
1.5 Stakeholders
1.6 Business Growth
This is a complete lesson and includes a Teacher’s PowerPoint and a Student worksheet in colour. It includes lots of activities, questions, debates, relatable and recent business case studies and a plenary quiz. Exciting and colourful resources written by Sarah Hilton a current GCSE Business examiner.
This resource covers the following topics:
The purpose of business activity and enterprise
Spotting an opportunity, developing an idea for a business, satisfying the needs of customers
Characteristics of an entrepreneur
Creativity, risk taking, determination and confidence
The concept of risk and reward
Why not check out all the other lessons in Unit 1 of the OCR GCSE?
1.2 Business planning
1.3 Business ownership
1.4 Business aims and objectives
1.5 Stakeholders
1.6 Business Growth
This is a complete 5 lesson bundle to help teach the 1.5 GCSE Edexcel unit Topic 1.5 Understanding external influences on business. All 5 lessons are written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and includes the following topics:
1.5.1
Business stakeholders
Who business stakeholders are and their different
objectives:
● shareholders (owners), employees, customers, managers, suppliers, local community, pressure groups, the government.
Stakeholders and businesses:
● how stakeholders are affected by business activity
● how stakeholders impact business activity
● possible conflicts between stakeholder groups.
1.5.2
Technology and business
Different types of technology used by business:
● e-commerce
● social media
● digital communication
● payment systems.
How technology influences business activity in terms of:
● sales
● costs
● marketing mix.
1.5.3
Legislation and business
The purpose of legislation:
● principles of consumer law: quality and consumer rights
● principles of employment law: recruitment, pay,
discrimination and health and safety.
The impact of legislation on businesses:
● cost
● consequences of meeting and not meeting these
obligations.
1.5.4
The economy and business
The impact of the economic climate on businesses:
● unemployment, changing levels of consumer income,
inflation, changes in interest rates, government taxation,
changes in exchange rates.
1.5.5
External influences
The importance of external influences on business:
● possible responses by the business to changes in:
technology, legislation, the economic climate.
