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    Worked example

    Marketing Manager: Advance to Defending a Campaign Recommendation

    A C1 marketing manager independently presents campaign evidence and is ready to defend a trade-off.

    This is a constructed teaching example, not a report of a real student or a claimed learning outcome.

    By Jan BrzostowskiReviewed by Martha, ESL Methodology Reviewer, 10 years of experiencePublished and updated June 15, 2026

    Student context

    A C1 marketing manager presents campaign performance to an executive team. The learner can describe results and recommend a channel allocation.

    Evidence

    • The learner independently summarized campaign results in two different data sets.
    • Recommendations used appropriate hedging and linked evidence to action.
    • No recurring accuracy problem remained in the target language.

    Decision

    Advance

    The reporting and recommendation objective is secure, so the next lesson should add executive challenge and trade-off defense.

    Lesson objective

    By the end of the lesson, the learner will defend a channel-allocation recommendation against two executive objections and state one condition that would change the decision.

    Activity sequence

    1. 1Identify the strongest evidence and the weakest assumption in a campaign recommendation.
    2. 2Prepare concise responses to cost, risk, and timing objections.
    3. 3Present the recommendation to a skeptical executive role-play.
    4. 4State a measurable condition for revising the allocation.

    Evidence to collect next

    • Whether responses address the objection rather than repeat the original case.
    • Whether concessions preserve the central recommendation.
    • Whether the revision condition is measurable.
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