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Teamwork in Business

CONCEPTUAL
Life Skills›Entrepreneurship|Ages 7—9|ID: mt_pOstrrS763

Most businesses need more than one person; working together, dividing tasks, and using different people's strengths; the value of teamwork in business

Mastery Evidence

  • Describe how they would divide tasks in a team business project (one person makes, one sells, one designs)
  • Explain why using people's different strengths makes a business better
  • Give an example of a problem that could happen if a team doesn't work well together

Assessment Prompt

“If [child] was working with friends to run a stall at a fair, could they suggest how to divide up the jobs so everyone plays to their strengths?”

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  • Making a Simple Plan soft

    Having a plan makes it easier to divide work among a team

    • Budgeting Pocket Money soft

      Cross-domain: budgeting pocket money (Money & Finance) provides planning foundation

      • Needs & Wants hard

        Must understand needs vs wants to make budget trade-offs

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

      • Buying Things soft

        Buying experience helps with realistic budgeting

        • Coins & Notes hard

          Must recognise coins/notes and their values before practising buying transactions

          • Coin Values soft

            Curriculum coins/notes recognition (Maths Y1) underpins exploratory coin knowledge

            • Reading and writing numbers to 20 hard

              Recognising coin values requires reading numerals (1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50)

              • How Many in Total? hard

                Reading/writing numerals 0–20 requires understanding that numerals represent quantities (cardinality)

                • One-to-one counting hard

                  Cardinality principle builds on one-to-one correspondence — you must count correctly to know the last number tells 'how many'

              • Writing digits 0-9 hard

                Writing numerals requires the motor skill of forming digits 0-9 (taught in English handwriting)

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand what money is before learning to recognise specific coins and notes

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand money as exchange medium before practising transactions

      • Saving Money hard

        Must understand saving concept before budgeting a fixed amount

        • Needs & Wants soft

          Understanding needs vs wants helps motivate saving decisions

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

        • What Money Is hard

          Must understand what money is before learning to save it

    • Having a Business Idea hard

      Must have a business idea before making a plan for it

      • Making Something to Sell hard

        Must have experience making something to sell before generating business ideas

        • Needs & Wants soft

          Cross-domain: needs vs wants (Money & Finance) helps understand what makes a product desirable

          • What Money Is hard

            Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

        • Goods & Services hard

          Must know what goods are before creating a product to sell

        • Buyers & Sellers hard

          Must understand exchange before making something to sell

          • Goods & Services hard

            Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

          • What Money Is soft

            Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

      • Who Is a Customer? hard

        Must understand customers before spotting problems to solve for them

        • Making Something to Sell soft

          Making a product helps understand what customers want

          • Needs & Wants soft

            Cross-domain: needs vs wants (Money & Finance) helps understand what makes a product desirable

            • What Money Is hard

              Must understand money exists and is limited before distinguishing needs from wants

          • Goods & Services hard

            Must know what goods are before creating a product to sell

          • Buyers & Sellers hard

            Must understand exchange before making something to sell

            • Goods & Services hard

              Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

            • What Money Is soft

              Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

        • Buyers & Sellers hard

          Must understand buyers and sellers before exploring customer concept in depth

          • Goods & Services hard

            Must understand goods and services before grasping buying and selling

          • What Money Is soft

            Cross-domain: understanding what money is (Money & Finance) supports grasping exchange

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