Business Communication Skills quiz

More questions about Business Communication Skills

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1. 1 Easy

   What do you call restating what someone just said in your own words?

   Answer: Paraphrasing

   Why: Counselling training treats it as a microskill: it restates one message, while a summary pulls together the themes of a longer stretch of talk.

2. 2 Medium

   Which tactic starts with an extreme request meant to get rejected?

   Answer: Door-in-the-face

   Why: Following a rejected extreme demand with a smaller one makes the second request feel like a generous concession.

3. 3 Hard

   What term describes the study of personal space in communication?

   Answer: Proxemics

   Why: Proxemics categorizes spatial boundaries, from intimate contact out to public distances of twelve feet or more.

4. 4 Easy

   What does the "CC" in a business email officially stand for?

   Answer: Carbon copy

   Why: Typists once slid a sheet of inky carbon paper under the original, so every key strike printed the duplicate at the same moment.

5. 5 Medium

   Jeff Bezos limits meeting size by the amount of what food?

   Answer: pizzas

   Why: Amazon applies the same limit to its two pizza teams, small groups that each own a single service outright.

6. 6 Hard

   Which Gricean maxim requires contributions to be relevant?

   Answer: Maxim of relation

   Why: The maxim of relation requires speakers to stay relevant to the current point of discussion.