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What impression are YOU making? Take the Usheroff Institute Quizzes to find out what your behavior, attitude, communication style, and business manners are saying about you.
The quizzes are a fun way to take a closer look at what you think, how you feel, and how well you are positioned to make the most of your career opportunities. Your answers may surprise you!

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  Gender Quiz Check Your Answers!
Men and women in business can be equal in almost every way: position, experience, expertise, professional experience, educational background, and intelligence. Despite these similarities, chances are men and women can be very different in one critical area: the way in which they communicate. It's not that an inherently male or female way of communication is better or more correct; the styles are just different. Understanding the inherent communication differences between men and women will help you to enhance your ability to communicate successfully with others, and to hear, interpret and comprehend others' messages without judgment.

To test your gender communications savvy, take the following quiz. Read over each of the questions and indicate, by checking the appropriate box, whether you believe the answer is "men" (symbol in the left column) or "women" (symbol in the right column). In each case the research has clearly shown that one gender or the other displays the characteristics described more often than the other gender does.

 
 
     
Male
Female
  1. Which gender tells the most jokes?
  2. Who talks the most in conversations?
  3. Which gender is more likely to bring up problems and confront issues?
  4. In school, teachers tend to call on which gender the most?
  5. Which gender tends to be more self-critical and apologetic?
  6. 75-90% of conversational interruptions come from which gender?
  7. Which gender talks at a slower rate of speed?
  8. Which gender touches others more often during conversation?
  9. Which gender maintains better eye contact during conversation?
  10. Which gender invades another’s personal space more often?
  11. Which gender averts their gaze more during negative interaction?
  12. Which gender provides more feedback through facial expressions?
  13. Which gender takes up more physical space when sitting or standing?
  14. Which gender is more likely to ask for help?
  15. Which gender is more diplomatic in their dealings with others?
  16. Which is the most intuitive gender?
  17. In conversations, which gender brings up the most topics?
  18. Which gender communicates to create connections with others?
  19. Which gender talks more about themselves and their accomplishments?
  20. Which gender uses more ‘qualifiers’ in their speech? (ex: sort of, kind of, a bit)
  21. Which gender uses fewer terms of politeness when they communicate?
  22. Which gender is more likely to use ‘fillers’ during conversational lulls, such as ‘hmmm’?
  23. Which gender is more likely to use fillers (such as uh, um, like) during speech?
  24. Which gender has more monotonous speech patterns?
  25. Which gender tends to lecture more when they speak?
       
   

 

 
 
 
         

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