IQ Tests

Quizzes, IQ tests and other assessments can prepare you to effectively run your business

Many types of assessments effectively test IQ levels. This is because so many different types of "IQ" exist besides native IQ, or native intelligence. A number of these IQ types can prove quite helpful to the businessperson. While few would argue that a high score on a classic IQ test is an asset to the business owner or manager, scoring well on a number of other tests could prove even more valuable in the business environment.

Some test types beneficial to the businessperson which might be classified as IQ tests are the following:

1. Classic IQ tests;
2. Memory tests;
3. Personality tests;
4. Aptitude tests;
5. Emotional IQ tests (also called EIQ or EQ tests);
6. Creative IQ (or Imagination Quotient) tests;
7. Business or Management IQ tests;
8. Entrepreneurial IQ tests;
9. Marketing IQ tests; and
10. "Geek" (or computer-related) IQ tests.

 

Improve your IQ, as well as your memory, with online IQ tests and trainers

Both online and downloadable IQ tests and trainers, as well as memory, personality and aptitude tests, can help you maximize your native abilities and prepare you to use them more effectively in both your business and your personal life.
Try: Ded Phyto, Inc., offers numerous free online IQ test choices, including classic IQ tests, several memory tests and a downloadable personality test. It also provides information on how to evaluate intelligence test results and provides a free IQ Trainer software download. BlueChillies.com offers a downloadable classic IQ test for purchase, which consists of 100 questions for more accurate intelligence test results. It provides other IQ tests, as well, and information on how you can improve your IQ. TechRepublic features the relatively inexpensive Bergman IQ Test download, consisting of three complete IQ tests that are roughly equivalent to the prestigious Mensa IQ test. BNet offers an aptitude test for free trial download, along with a number of other IQ-type tests and assessments.

Visit websites that test IQ in specific business-related "hard" skills categories

Many quizzes test IQ in a number of "hard" skill areas, providing valuable insight into your level of expertise in specific, hands-on business and technical topics.
Try: InfoWorld offers the opportunity to test both your "Geek" IQ and your network security IQ. Z Squared Media, LLC, provides its quick, 20-question Smart Marketing IQ Test, to help you test your marketing savvy. ReEngineer Profit, LLC, offers a more comprehensive Business IQ Test.

Test your "soft" skills and assess aptitudes that can benefit your business

Numerous online tests can help you evaluate such critical "soft" skill areas as creativity, persuasiveness, entrepreneurial aptitude, business management aptitude and emotional IQ - all critical to business success.
Try: Before & After provides a super-quick Creative IQ test. In this particular test, "IQ" stands for "Imagination Quotient." The test is intended to give you a very general idea of your organization's or team's creativity level. Persuasion Institute provides two versions of its Persuasion IQ Test: The Quick Persuasion IQ Test, for those whose time is limited but who want some quick insight, and The Extensive Persuasion IQ Test, for professionals who are serious about improving their persuasive powers. Tickle offers the Guy Kawasaki Entrepreneurial Test, and FunEducation, Inc., offers its Business Management Aptitude Test. Queendom offers an emotional IQ test, along with numerous other tests, which are intended for your own personal development, yet which can also benefit you professionally.

 

• No single online test qualifies as THE official IQ Test. So plan to sample a variety of test materials to gain greater insight into your own personal cognitive and business management abilities and to determine your employees' areas of greatest aptitude.

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