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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 17/01/2026
Subject: Business
Lesson Topic: how changing business objectives might affect stakeholders
Learning Objective/s:
  • Describe how changes in business objectives can alter stakeholder interests, importance, and influence.
  • Analyse the impact of different objective shifts (e.g., profit to market share, sustainability) on internal and external stakeholder groups.
  • Apply an impact‑analysis framework to reassess stakeholder importance and adjust engagement strategies.
  • Construct and interpret an Influence‑Interest matrix for revised objectives.
  • Evaluate communication and negotiation tactics for managing stakeholder expectations after objective changes.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector and screen
  • Whiteboard and markers
  • Printed stakeholder analysis worksheets
  • Influence‑Interest matrix template (handout)
  • Case‑study cards with objective‑change scenarios
  • Sticky notes and pens for group work
 Introduction:
Begin with a quick poll: “If a company suddenly prioritises sustainability over profit, who do you think will be most affected?” Connect this to prior knowledge of stakeholder definitions. Explain that today’s success criteria are to identify how objective shifts reshape stakeholder importance and to produce an updated Influence‑Interest matrix.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Do‑now (5') – poll results and brief whole‑class discussion.
  2. Review stakeholder definitions & categories (7') – teacher mini‑lecture with examples.
  3. Introduce impact‑analysis framework (8') – walk through the four‑step process using a sample objective change.
  4. Group activity (15') – each group receives a case‑study card, maps the new objective to stakeholder groups, re‑ranks importance, and fills an Influence‑Interest matrix.
  5. Whole‑class debrief (10') – groups present findings; teacher highlights patterns and misconceptions.
  6. Communication strategy brainstorm (8') – students list tactics for high‑influence/high‑interest stakeholders.
  7. Exit ticket (5') – students write one key insight and one question they still have.
Conclusion:
Summarise how shifting objectives can re‑order stakeholder influence and why proactive engagement matters. For the exit ticket, students note the most surprising stakeholder impact they discovered. Assign homework: read a recent news article on a company’s strategic shift and prepare a brief stakeholder impact analysis for the next lesson.