BMA-IBT-4 Leadership Skills Unit
Intro to Business & Technology
Course Standard 4
BMA-IBT-4
Analyze and integrate leadership skills and management functions within the business environment.
4.1 Explain the interrelationships between the functions of business: accounting, finance, production, marketing,
sales, and management.
4.2 Define, explain and apply various management functions including planning, organizing, directing, and
controlling.
4.3 Explain the importance of a vision, a mission statement, and goal-setting within the context of the business
environment.
4.4 Apply the decision making process to a business situation.
4.5 Discuss the impact of the business and personal reputation and image including online presence as part of the
management of the business.
4.6 Understand employee impact and management’s role in contributing to successful business operations.
4.7 Exhibit organizational skills while planning and executing business projects.
4.8 Implement strategic plans to manage business growth, profit, and goals.
4.9 Investigate leadership skills within a successful business environment.
Support of CTAE Foundation Course Standards and Common Core GPS and Georgia
Performance Standards
ELACC9-10SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and
issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
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BMA-IBT-4 Leadership Skills Unit
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Essential Question: What is
management?
Essential Question: What is a
mission statement?
Essential Question: What is an
investment?
Essential Question: What is the
meaning of SWOT?
Essential Question: Which
person did you think had the
best product and why?
Objective: Students will be
introduced to the
interrelationships between the
functions of business, and the
students will apply various
management functions
including planning,
organizing, directing, and
controlling.
Objective: Students will be
introduced to the importance
of a vision, a mission
statement, and goal-setting
within the context of the
business environment.
Objective: Students will apply
the decision making process
to a business situation, and
the students will use SWOT
analysis to choose whether
investing in a business/product
is a good idea.
Objective: Students will apply
the decision making process
to a business situation, and
the students will use SWOT
analysis to choose whether
investing in a business/product
is a good idea.
Guided Practice: Discuss the
meaning of SWOT to the
students. Students will view an
episode of the TV show Shark
Tank and will take notes on
the Shark Tank Video SWOT
Analysis Handouts. Only show
the first two contestants –
Marian Cruz and Bryan Parks,
and then discuss as needed.
Guided Practice: Discuss the
meaning of SWOT to the
students. Students will view an
episode of the TV show Shark
Tank and will take notes on
the Shark Tank Video SWOT
Analysis Handouts. Show the
last three contestants – Lori
Lite, Ken Bradford, & Josh &
Jeff Cohen, and then discuss
as needed.
Guided Practice: Students will
take notes over Management
Functions PPT and we will
discuss the basics of the
management functions.
Independent Practice:
Students will take notes on the
handouts for the PPT.
Guided Practice: Students will
take notes over Vision and
Mission Statements PPT and
we will discuss the importance
and purpose of a mission
statement and review the
Worth Co. School Systems’
vision and mission statement.
Grade: Teacher Observation
Independent Practice:
Students will take notes on the
handouts for the PPT and will
complete the Mission
Statement Matching Activity.
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Grade: Mission Statement
Matching Activity
Materials: Computers, Mgmt
Functions PPT, & Notes
Handouts
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Vision and Mission
Statements PPT and Notes
Handouts, WCSS Purpose,
Direction, and Beliefs
Handouts, and the Mission
Statement Matching Activity
Independent Practice: Shark
Tank SWOT Analysis Handout
and Discussion
Grade: SWOT Analysis – Shark
Tank Video Handout
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Shark Tank Episode
3 of Season 1 and the SWOT
Analysis Handouts
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Independent Practice: Shark
Tank SWOT Analysis Handout
and Discussion
Grade: SWOT Analysis – Shark
Tank Video Handout
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Shark Tank Episode
3 of Season 1 and the SWOT
Analysis Handouts
Objective: Students will apply
the decision making process
to a business situation, and
the students will use SWOT
analysis to choose whether
investing in a business/product
is a good idea.
Guided Practice: Discuss the
meaning of SWOT to the
students. Students will view an
episode of the TV show Shark
Tank and will take notes on
the Shark Tank Video SWOT
Analysis Handouts.
Independent Practice:
Students will complete the
discussion questions for the
Shark Tank SWOT Analysis
Handout and Discussion
Grade: SWOT Analysis – Shark
Tank Video Handout
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Shark Tank Episode
3 of Season 1 and the SWOT
Analysis Handouts
BMA-IBT-4 Leadership Skills Unit
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Bellringer/Journal Entry
Essential Question: What are
the 3 main leadership styles?
Essential Question: What
qualities do good leaders
have?
Essential Question: Which
business leader did you
choose to create your
presentation on?
Essential Question: Who is
Coach Carter and what did
he do?
Essential Question: Who are 3
famous leaders?
Objective: Students will
investigate leadership skills,
styles, and qualities within a
successful business
environment and will
understand employee impact
and management’s role in
contributing to successful
business operations.
Guided Practice: Students will
takes notes over Leadership
Styles PPT using the 3 Types of
Leadership Graphic
Organizer.
Independent Practice:
Students will take notes on the
handouts for the PPT.
Objective: Students will
investigate leadership skills,
styles, and qualities within a
successful business
environment and will
understand employee impact
and management’s role in
contributing to successful
business operations.
Guided Practice: Leadership
Paper Assignment discussing
an example of a good leader
and a bad leader. Then,
show the Coach Carter Video
trailer and discuss the Leading
On and Off the Court
Assignment. Post article in
Edmodo.
Materials: Leadership Styles
PPT and the 3 Types of
Leadership Graphic Organizer
Guided Practice: Continue to
discuss, as needed the
Leading On and Off the Court
Assigment and introduce the
Business Leader Presentation
Assignment.
Independent Practice:
Leadership Paper Assignment
and Begin the Leading On
and Off the Court Assignment.
Independent Practice: Finish
the Leading On and Off the
Court Assignment and begin
working on the Business
Leader Presentation
Assignment.
Grade: Leadership Paper
Assignment Leading On and
Off the Court Assignment
Grade: Leading On and Off
the Court Assignment and
Business Leader Presentation
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Video, Leadership
Paper Assignment, Leading
On & Off the Court
Assignment & Article
Materials: Leading On and
Off the Court Assignment and
Article and Business Leader
Presentation Assignment
Grade: Teacher Observation
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Objective: Students will
investigate leadership skills,
styles, and qualities within a
successful business
environment and will
understand employee impact
and management’s role in
contributing to successful
business operations.
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Objective: Students will
investigate leadership skills,
styles, and qualities within a
successful business
environment and will
understand employee impact
and management’s role in
contributing to successful
business operations.
Guided Practice: Continue
and discuss finish and submit
the Business Leader
Presentation Assignment in
Edmodo. Also, students
should study all notes taken
over this section in
preparation for tomorrow’s
test.
Objective: Students will
investigate leadership skills,
styles, and qualities within a
successful business
environment and will
understand employee impact
and management’s role in
contributing to successful
business operations.
Guided Practice: Students will
complete a unit test over
management and leadership
skills.
Independent Practice: Unit
Test and students will finish any
unfinished assignments and
submit them.
Grade: Unit Test
Independent Practice: Finish
Business Leader Presentation
Assignment
Grade: Business Leader
Presentation Assignment
Closure: Review today,
remind students about test
tomorrow, and preview
tomorrow.
Materials: Business Leader
Presentation Assignment
Closure: Review today and
preview tomorrow.
Materials: Unit Test
BMA-IBT-4 Leadership Skills Unit
Resources:
Management Functions PPT
Management Functions Guided Notes
Vision and Mission Statements PPT
Vision and Mission Statements Guided Notes
WCSS Purpose, Direction, and Beliefs Handouts
Mission Statement Matching Activity
Shark Tank Episode 3 of Season 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P29otbF99z4
Shark Tank Video SWOT Analysis and Discussion Handouts
Leadership Styles PPT
3 Types of Leadership Graphic Organizer (Students will take notes from the PPT on this graphic organizer)
Leadership Paper Assignment
Coach Carter Movie Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znyAnWUYf2g
Leading On and Off the Court Assignment
Leading On and Off the Court Article
Business Leader Presentation Assignment
Unit Test
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