Needs and ease questionnaire

Stage 1: Choose the skill below that is most useful for you and write a number 10 next to it in the “need” column.

Stage 2: Choose the skill that is least useful and write a 1 next to it in the “need” column

Stage 3: Fill all the other “need” boxes with numbers between 10 and 1 depending on how useful they are (you don’t need to use every number)

Stage 4: Mark a 10 in the “ease” column of the thing that you find easiest and a 1 in the one that you find most difficult

Stage 5: Mark a number between 10 and 1 in all the other “ease” boxes

Skill	need	ease
1.        Ask and answer questions about your job
2.        Introduce two people who don-t know each other
3.        Meet people you don’t know
4.        Greet people you know
5.        Exchange business cards and make comments on them
6.        Describe your company and what it does
7.        Ask to speak to someone on the phone
8.        Take a telephone message
9.        Answer the phone
10.    Leave a telephone message
11.    Double check what people say
12.    Say you don’t understand in different ways
13.    Make offers
14.    Make requests
15.    Talk about your hometown and ask about other people’s
16.    Talk about your journey and ask about other people’s
17.    Talk about your trip and ask about other people’s
18.    Talk about your hotel and ask about other people’s
19.    Talk about food in your and other people’s countries
20.    Make conversation about possessions and their special features
21.    Speak in meetings
22.    Agree and disagree
23.    Ask people’s opinions
24.    Start a meeting
25.    Chair a meeting

 

PDF for easy printing: NeedsEaseQuestionnaire