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Quizzes

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Are You a Good Listener?
Good communication is a two-way street: speaking and listening. Becoming a good listener is a skill we learn, and like other skills, it takes practice to get better. This quiz will help determine where a person’s strengths are and where he or she can improve as a listener.
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Are You Playing the Blame Game?
When things go wrong, blame is an easy way of taking the spotlight off oneself and shining it on others. This quiz will help determine if one is playing that game. Click here for an excerpt from the quiz.
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Are You Sabotaging Yourself?
Habitual lateness. Extreme disorganization. Not following up sales leads. This quiz helps to identify how we might be sabotaging our own efforts.
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Are You “Too Busy”?
Many people complain about being too busy, but forget that they have a say in the matter. This quiz offers help and insight.
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Are You A Warrior at Work?
How can one bring more of the warrior to work? This quiz can help.
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Caretaking? or Taking Care?
As this quiz reveals, “taking care” and “caretaking” are vastly different in practice.
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Do You Have the People-Pleasing Syndrome?
When does being nice become toxic to oneself? Take this quiz to find out.
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Do You Have Workaholic Habits?
There is a clear difference between enthusiastic, energetic work toward a highly valued goal and workaholism. That difference lies primarily in the emotional quality of the hours spent. This quiz will help a person see if he or she has a problem.
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Family Stress Test
Do family members bicker? Or do they acknowledge feelings and encourage their expression? This quiz will help one see if stress is exacting too great a toll.
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How Controlling Are You?
We all know them…the folks who MUST CONTROL EVERYTHING. This quiz will help identify if that controlling person is you.
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How Defensive Are You?
When most of our communication is spent defending ourselves, there’s not much room for meaningful contact. This quiz helps identify the problem and offers alternative perspectives.
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How Healthy Is Your Relationship with Money?
Are unspoken attitudes and ideas about money getting in the way of well-being and security? This quiz can help one see if that’s so.
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How Much Joy Can You Stand?
Everyone has a dream. It may whisper to us in a still, small voice or it may have the volume and intensity of Martin Luthur King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. This quiz will help determine if a person is living his or her dream—and how to begin.
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How’s Your Joy Level at Work?
Do people have to do work that they love in order to feel joy? Not necessarily. Here’s how to bring joy to anything.
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How Well Are You Listening to Your Children (or Others)?
Advice, lecturing, even praise don’t take the place of real listening. Here, through a quiz format, are thirteen ways to begin.
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How Well Constructed Are Your Boundaries?
The poet said, “Good fences make good neighbors.” He was right. Good boundaries make life easier, reduce conflict and improve relationships. This quiz will help a person determine where his or her boundaries are healthy and where they might need shoring up.
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How Well Do I Love My Body?
On hot summer days, when bodies are more on display, a person may feel vulnerable if his or her body isn’t a perfect 10. But this quiz teaches that obsessing on one’s perceived flaws is counter-productive.
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How Well Do You Communicate?
Communication involves more than just speaking and listening. This quiz helps a person discover how well he or she already communicates and may also teach new skills.
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How Well Do You Deal With Worry?
Worry can help us to anticipate danger or it can be a harmful source of stress. This quiz helps determine where one falls on the continuum and also offers practical suggestions for handling worry.
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How Well Do You Delegate?
Whether a person work with others, or alone, he or she may still suffer from the “Lone Ranger Syndrome”—that managerial malaise that causes folks to work excessively long, hard hours because only THEY know how to do something right. Whoa, Silver! There is a cure.
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How Well Do You Handle Anxiety?
Anxiety is a normal emotion that most people experience. It becomes a problem when it interferes with a person’s daily functioning. This quiz will help determine if anxiety is having that kind of impact.
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How (Well) Do You Handle Conflict?
A person’s approach to conflict resolution can make life easier or tougher. This questionnaire reveals how one responds in conflict situations.
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How Well Do You Handle Failure?
Failure may be inevitable. But how a person handles failure can mean the difference between accepting shame or gaining wisdom from lessons learned.
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How Well Do You Handle Fear?
At its best, fear is an instinctive ability that aids human survival. At its worst, it’s that nagging internal voice that heralds doom and disaster for no good reason.
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How (Well) Do You Handle Overwhelm?
Overwhelm can leave a person feeling helpless. But there are ways to cope and even thrive.
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How Well Do You Handle Workplace Conflict?
Like taxes, conflict in the workplace is inevitable. That isn’t all bad. Handling conflict well leads to many benefits.
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How Well Do You Manage Your Energy?
It is the skillful management of energy, not time, that most significantly affects high performance. Take this quiz to see if you could be managing energy in a healthier way.
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How Well Do You Motivate Others?
As the quiz reveals, there is more to motivation than the three Ps.
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How Well Do You Part Ways?
Breaking up is hard to do. But it doesn’t have to be devastating.
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How Well Do You Practice Empathy?
Empathy—that quality of recognizing and understanding another person’s desires, beliefs and emotions—is one of the most important skills we can ever acquire. It fosters meaningful relationships, encourages honest communication and can help avert violence.
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How Well Do You Practice Empathy at Work?
As the quiz reveals, empathy is an extremely important skill in the workplace.
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How Well Do You Present?
What does it take to be a great speaker? Take this quiz and see.
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How Well Do You Recognize Those Who Work With You?
What’s wrong with employee-of-the-month, coffee mugs, and length-of-service awards? This quiz will show more effective ways to express a job well done.
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One-Liners to Avoid in an Argument
They slice and dice, cutting wounds not easily healed by pacifying words. They inflame like a lit match near gasoline. They suck the life out of all that they touch. What are they?
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Perfectionist Quiz
There's a difference between excellence and perfection. Striving to be really good is excellence; trying to be flawless is perfectionism. This quiz will help a person determine if he or she is striving for the unattainable.
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Test Your Temper
How does one determine if anger is a problem? And if it is, what can one do about it? The quiz will help.
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