Business Quiz
Alton 4 Business held a business quiz at one of our recent breakfast meetings. If you missed the meeting, but would still like to take part in the quiz, the 20 questions are listed below.
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- Which of these is a 'soft' skill, Analysing, Monitoring, Budgeting, Counselling
- Integrity is essential in all functions, but is it most crucial in supervisionmanagement, or leadership?
- Staff performance appraisals work best if they are strictly an annual event - true or false?
- Which tends to produce the highest percentage gross profit: mature high-volume products or new low-volume specialised services?
- For effective time management what's the best frequency for checking your email inbox: constantly, every hour, two or three times a day?
- It is said that "If you can't measure it then you can't..." what?
- Abraham Maslow developed the Hierarchy of what?
- What does MBO or MBO's stand for?
- A subordinate has raised a personal issue with you by email which is causing him/her obvious distress - what's the best means of communicating from this point: email, phone, face-to-face, text, letter?
- Putting interviewees under a lot of pressure at job interviews is generally helpful to the process of finding out about the person - true or false?
- Experiential learning is most beneficial to people who have a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning style preference?
- Which is likely to motivate an enthusiastic capable team member most: doubling their target, agreeing additional responsibility, a bonus payment, a new car?
- What's a simple way to find out the causes if staff turnover (number of people leaving) has gone through the roof in the last two months?
- A company has a turnover of £11m. Its 'cost of sales' or 'cost of goods sold' (COGS) is £6.3m. Its overheads including fixed costs, depreciation (write-down of capital items) and any interest charges (on borrowings) are £3.5m. What is the company's percentage gross profit and percentage net profit before tax, and is this profit % for a company very high, very low or somewhat typical?
- What acronym is useful when delegating a task to someone or agreeing an objective?
- If you assume responsibility for a mature, high-achieving confident team, which of the following is generally the best approach to take: stamp your authority on the group; introduce some new ideas of your own; give them space and make yourself available if needed; or look for ways to cut costs?
- What's the relevance of hobbies on a person's CV?
- What can 'closed' questions be used for?
- When planning the running order for a meeting is it generally best to put the big important items first or last or in the middle between smaller things?
- When conducting appraisals or counselling sessions it's best to sit at your desk with the other person facing you on the other side, so as to reinforce your authority - true or false?
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