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You know your company best.
You know your products, rules, safety
procedures and company policy.
For this reason, writing trivia questions
for a
Game
Show Training
Session
is something that each of our corporate clients usually
do themselves.
Here are a few guidelines to help make your
Game Show Training
Session
session a big hit with your employees!
1.
Write questions so that there is only ONE correct
answer. This may
seem obvious, but it is important to carefully
evaluate each trivia question to be certain that
the answer you list as being correct cannot be
disputed by your employees.
2.
Avoid vague questions.
This is easier said than done, but it is
important to evaluate each question to ensure that
your employees will know precisely what you are
talking about.
3.
Write the questions so that the answer is fairly
short, and does not require a long and detailed
answer from the employee.
For instance, if you have a product that is
used for a specific purpose, you may want to
consider listing the purpose as the question, and
list the name of the product as the answer.
This isn’t something that has to be
followed all the time, as there are situations
where it is appropriate to ask for a description.
Here are two examples that come from an
instructor certification course:
A.
This law of learning is utilized when a student
practices a skill just before using it to ensure a
more effective performance.
Answer: Law of Recency
B.
As an instructor, you become aware that one
student in your class is extremely gifted in their
ability to learn.
This student is well ahead of the rest of
the class, and is becoming bored.
How would you handle this student?
Answer:
Give them challenging assignments and use them to
help other students when appropriate.
4.
When writing the questions, use at LEAST a #12
font. Write
each question, then double space down, and indent
over two tab spaces and list the answer – just
like you see in the above examples. The
idea is to make it easy for the game show host to
read the questions and to reduce confusion.
5.
The number of questions depends on the length of
time you want to allot for the Game Show training
session. Approximately
100 questions per hour are necessary.
6.
If you have different groups of employees, such as
sales, support and warehouse – make sure that
you write questions for each employee group
separately.
This way, we can call three employees at a
time from the same employee group, and use
questions that pertain specifically to their jobs.
7.
Identify those questions that are especially
difficult, so that we may award more points if an
employee correctly answers the question.
Make sure you don't go overboard with
overly difficult questions.
8.
For those questions that have five to ten specific
potential answers, consider writing the question
so it reads as follows:
“Garth
Brooks released six songs in 1997, name at least
three of them”.
9.
Maintain the security of your questions so that
your employee’s do not have the opportunity to
read them prior to the Game Show Training session.
Minimize the number of people that are
involved in writing and reviewing the questions,
as this eliminates those employees from playing.
10.
We suggest a three step process to writing trivia
questions.
First,
have one employee go through and write all of the
questions and answers.
Second,
have a DIFFERENT employee review the questions and
edit them for accuracy, and eliminate questions
that may have more than one possible answer, etc. Third,
have
the two employees sit down, and READ ALOUD each
question to the other.
Please adjust the questions so that they
read fluently and smoothly!
Many
people are quite surprised at how different a
question sounds when it is actually read aloud.
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