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What psychological methodology does NLP stand
for?
David McLelland's motivational theory identified
three principal motivational needs which he said each of us possesses to
varying degrees, and which characterise our motivational behaviour; what are
these three motivational needs?
Which organisation produces the UK's ABC1C2 (etc)
Social Grade Classifications Statistics?
What does the selling acronym AIDA stand for?
Who developed the 'Equity Theory' of job
motivation in the 1960's?
What does the financial abbreviation P&L
stand for?
Who developed the ten stages of corporate life
cycle, starting with Courtship and Infancy and ending in Bureaucracy and Death?
The Ansoff matrix correlates what two aspects of
business development from the 'new' and 'existing' perspectives?
In selling and communications, what do 'open
questions' generally achieve?
Albert Mehrabian researched and published a now
widely referenced set of statistics for the effectiveness of spoken
communications; what three types of communication did he identify and what
percentages for each did he attach to each type in terms of the percentage of
meaning (or understanding) that each communication type conveyed from person to
person in his study?
In business accounts and financial reporting,
expenses which change according to scale of performance or usage or demand are
known as what?
What is the name of Ingham and Luft's model and
theory which deals with hidden and open areas of knowledge about a person?
The '360 degree' appraisal method collects
feedback from whom, about whom?
What are the four levels of learning evaluation
defined in Donald Kirkpatrick's model?
What is the correct ascending order of these
human needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Esteem, Safety,
Belongingness and Love, Self-Actualisation, Biological and Physiological?
What part of our brains typically handles
process-type functions, according to brain theorists such as Katherine
Benziger?
What does the accounting acronym FIFO mean?
One of the most effective and efficient forms of
marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it?
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains divides
learning development into three main aspects: Cognitive, Affective and
Psychomotor; what might these three aspects of personal development more
commonly be called?
Who wrote the Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People?
The 'Big Five' personality dimensions, by which
modern day psychologists believe every person's personality and behaviour
tendencies can be measured are commonly abbreviated to the OCEAN acronym; what
does OCEAN stand for?
What are the four metaphorical terms used to
describe products/services in Boston Matrix model according to market share and
market maturity?
The financial ratio which divides a company's
'liquid assets' by 'current liabilities' is known by what popular term?
What three important things should be confirmed
and understood before conducting a brainstorming ideas session?
What does the SWOT stand for in SWOT analysis?
What are the 'Four Functional Types' within Carl
Jung's theory?
With what was the Kyoto Summit concerned?
What are the four sequential stages of the
'conscious competence' learning model?
What is the '1st Law of Cybernetics' (aka the
'Law of Requisite Variety')?
What are the four main 'Temperament' types called
within David Keirsey's Temperaments personality theory?
According to the Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory
relating to delegation and team development, what must be reduced in order for
the team's area of freedom (and growth) to increase?
What does the financial term ROI stand for?
Whose experiential learning theory comprises the
learning styles named: Concrete Experience (feeling); Abstract
Conceptualization (thinking); Active Experimentation (doing); and Reflective
Observation (watching)?
Daniel Goleman was responsible for popularising
and defining what management and behavioural concept in his eponymously titled
(ie., the title is also the subject) 1995 book?
What is psychometrics?
What is the management technique that is commonly
abbreviated to MBWA?
Large size hand-writing generally indicates what
characteristics in the personality of the writer?
Since October 2004, UK employers must follow a
minimum process of three-stages for handling disputes with employees, including
disciplinary and grievance matters; what are the basic minimum three stages
required?
Douglas McGregor defined two main styles of
management; what did he call them and how are each of the two styles typified?
Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development
uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a
group's progression?
What are Howard Gardner's seven (original)
Multiple Intelligences?
According to Herzberg's motivational theory,
which of these are 'hygiene needs' (or 'maintenance factors') and which are
true 'motivators': work conditions, salary, achievement, advancement, work
itself, responsibility, company car, status, recognition, and personal growth?
What does VAK stand for in the learning styles
theory?
What does the business acronym IPO stand for?
What does the PEST stand for in PEST
analysis?
What do 'open questions' typically begin with?
What visionary management thinker wrote The Age
Of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat?
What are the names of the (nine) Belbin 'team
roles'?
In marketing, what are the The Four P's?
A lot of the traditional 20th century sales
theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and
Influence People'; who wrote it?
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