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Leadership, Projects and Technology: Test Review

Everything for the Unit 4 test on one page: the key facts from all 5 lessons, the mistakes that cost the most marks, and a practice test that points you back to the lessons you need.

Key facts

Business Leadership Styles

  • Leadership style: a leader's usual way of making decisions, directing work and motivating people.
  • Decision scale: autocratic (leader decides) to democratic (team gives input) to laissez-faire (team decides).
  • Transformational = inspiring vision; servant = team's needs first; coaching = building each person's skills.
  • Situational leadership: match the style to urgency, team readiness (competence and commitment), need for buy-in and risk.
  • Every style has a risk: name it when you choose the style so you can guard against it.

The Project Management Process

  • Five stages: initiating (goals), planning (tasks), executing (do the plan), monitoring (track progress), closing (deliver and reflect).
  • Initiating sets goals, deliverables, KPIs, stakeholders and approval; planning sets tasks, resources, schedule, delegation, risks and budget.
  • RACI: Responsible does the work, Accountable makes sure it gets done and approves it (one person only), Consulted gives input, Informed is told.
  • A risk register lists each risk with its likelihood, impact, planned response and owner.
  • Percent of target ; judge a project against the KPIs set at the start, and use feedback to explain the results.

Digital Tools and Data Security

  • Weigh every tool on benefits, limitations, costs (subscription, transaction fees, equipment, learning time) and risks.
  • Security basics: strong unique passwords with a password manager, two-factor authentication, updates, backups.
  • Phishing signs: urgency, a mismatched sender or link, requests for passwords, codes or money.
  • Protect personal information: consent, collect only what you need, store it securely, use it only for the stated purpose (the idea behind Canada's privacy laws such as PIPEDA).
  • Decision matrix: weighted score , with weights adding to 100%.

Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers

  • Creative thinking generates many ideas; critical thinking examines and tests them. Problem solving needs both.
  • Business skills such as financial literacy, persuasive communication and data analysis support math, English, science, technology and job-skills programs.
  • Employee: works for someone else. Self-employed: works for themselves. Entrepreneur: starts and grows a venture and takes on its risk.
  • Many skilled tradespeople run their own businesses, so they need quoting, budgeting, HST, marketing and record-keeping skills.
  • Portfolio: organized evidence of your competencies and growth, with reflections on what you learned and what comes next.

How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face

  • Ventures can address social, economic, environmental and ethical issues, not just earn profit.
  • Social enterprise: a business whose main purpose is solving a social or environmental problem, reinvesting most profit in that purpose.
  • B Corp certification: an outside review of a company's effect on workers, customers, community and environment, with a required standard and openness about results.
  • Common challenges: access to capital, networks, discrimination and bias, rural internet access, work-life balance.
  • Supports: mentorship, loans and grants, Indigenous business development organizations, women's and newcomers' programs, local business centres.

Where marks get lost

  • Saying one style is always best. Every style has situations where it works and situations where it fails. (Business Leadership Styles)
  • Confusing laissez-faire with no leadership at all. A delegative leader still sets goals and checks in. (Business Leadership Styles)
  • Choosing democratic leadership in an emergency, so the group is still discussing while the problem gets worse. (Business Leadership Styles)
  • Judging a team only by skill and ignoring motivation (or the reverse). Situational leadership looks at both competence and commitment. (Business Leadership Styles)
  • Naming a style without explaining why it fits the situation and what its risk is. (Business Leadership Styles)
  • Starting to buy supplies before the goal, KPIs and approval are agreed, so the team cannot tell later whether the project succeeded. (The Project Management Process)
  • Giving a task to "the group" instead of one named owner. When everyone owns a task, nobody does it. (The Project Management Process)
  • Putting more than one person as Accountable on a RACI chart. There must be exactly one. (The Project Management Process)
  • Treating monitoring as something that happens only after the event. By then it is too late to fix a slipping schedule. (The Project Management Process)
  • Judging success by how the event felt instead of comparing actual results with the KPI targets set at the start. (The Project Management Process)
  • Using the same password for the club's email, payment app and social media, so one leak unlocks all three. (Digital Tools and Data Security)
  • Comparing tools only by their price tag and forgetting transaction fees, subscriptions and the time it takes to learn them. (Digital Tools and Data Security)
  • Clicking a link in an urgent email instead of opening the real app or website directly to check. (Digital Tools and Data Security)
  • Collecting extra personal information "just in case" and storing it in a shared folder anyone can open. (Digital Tools and Data Security)
  • Trusting an AI assistant's facts or figures without checking them against a reliable source. (Digital Tools and Data Security)
  • Judging ideas too early during brainstorming, so the best unusual idea never gets written down. (Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers)
  • Thinking business skills only matter if you plan to own a company. They are used in every subject and almost every job. (Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers)
  • Assuming the skilled trades and business are separate paths. Many tradespeople are business owners. (Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers)
  • Filling a portfolio with work samples but no reflection, so it shows what you did but not what you learned. (Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers)
  • Confusing self-employed and employee: a self-employed person does not receive wages from an employer. (Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers)
  • Thinking a business that makes a profit cannot also solve social or environmental problems. (How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face)
  • Treating B Corp as a type of ownership like a partnership. It is a certification a company earns, not a legal form of business. (How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face)
  • Describing entrepreneurs from a community with stereotypes instead of the specific facts of their ventures. (How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face)
  • Assuming every entrepreneur faces the same barriers. Access to capital, networks and internet differ a lot by community and background. (How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face)
  • Listing supports without matching each one to the specific challenge it solves. (How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face)

Practice test

25 questions from across the unit. Each one shows the lesson it comes from.

  1. Business Leadership Styles
    1
    Which style is most likely to produce fast decisions but lower team morale if it is used all the time?
  2. Business Leadership Styles
    2
    Sort these styles from "leader makes the decision" to "team makes the decision."
    1. 1Democratic
    2. 2Autocratic
    3. 3Laissez-faire
  3. Business Leadership Styles
    3
    What is the name for the idea that a leader should change styles to fit the task and the team's readiness?
  4. Business Leadership Styles
    4
    What is the main risk of using laissez-faire leadership with a brand-new, inexperienced team?
  5. Business Leadership Styles
    5
    Match each situation to the style that fits it best.
    A fire alarm sounds during the craft sale
    Choosing which charity the club will support this year
    First-time volunteers learning to use the payment app
    An expert team that has run the event for years
  6. The Project Management Process
    6
    Put the five stages of the project management process in order.
    1. 1Closing
    2. 2Monitoring
    3. 3Executing
    4. 4Initiating
    5. 5Planning
  7. The Project Management Process
    7
    A club fundraiser budget has these lines: decorations $45.00, food $160.00, music rental $75.00 and contingency $20.00. What is the total planned spending, in dollars?
    $
  8. The Project Management Process
    8
    On a RACI chart, who is the Accountable person?
  9. The Project Management Process
    9
    What do you call the money set aside in a project budget to cover surprises?
  10. The Project Management Process
    10
    In a risk register, a card reader failing is rated medium likelihood and high impact. What is the best response?
  11. Digital Tools and Data Security
    11
    Match each task to the most suitable tool.
    Tracking the budget and calculating totals
    Taking tap payments at the shop
    Letting the whole team edit the schedule at once
    Designing a poster and a logo
  12. Digital Tools and Data Security
    12
    Which is the strongest password choice for the club's payment account?
  13. Digital Tools and Data Security
    13
    A payment app charges a 3% fee on card sales (a made-up rate). A club takes $650 in card sales. How much is the fee, to the nearest cent?
    $
  14. Digital Tools and Data Security
    14
    What is the name of Canada's federal privacy law for private-sector organizations' commercial activities? (Give the short form.)
  15. Digital Tools and Data Security
    15
    Put the steps of choosing a tool with a decision matrix in order.
    1. 1Compare totals and check each option's weak spots
    2. 2Multiply scores by weights and add
    3. 3Score each option on each criterion
    4. 4List the options
    5. 5Choose criteria and give each a weight
  16. Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers
    16
    During a brainstorm, a team member says, "That idea will never work" about every suggestion. Which part of problem solving is being cut short?
  17. Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers
    17
    An electrician quotes $240 for materials and 4 hours of labour at $85 per hour, plus 13% HST. What is the total quote, to the nearest cent?
    $
  18. Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers
    18
    What is the name for paid on-the-job training under an experienced tradesperson, combined with classroom learning?
  19. Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers
    19
    Why do many skilled tradespeople need business skills?
  20. Business Skills, Other Subjects and Careers
    20
    Which item adds the most to a portfolio entry about leading a fundraiser?
  21. How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face
    21
    Match each venture action to the type of issue it addresses.
    Switching to compostable packaging
    Hiring youth who have struggled to find work
    Buying supplies from local businesses
    Advertising only claims you can prove
  22. How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face
    22
    Match each entrepreneur to their venture.
    Ron Foxcroft
    Sean McCormick
    Tobi Lütke
    Joseph-Armand Bombardier
  23. How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face
    23
    Match each challenge to the support that most directly addresses it.
    No credit history to get a bank loan
    Knowing nobody in the industry
    Slow internet in a remote community
    Exhaustion from working every evening
  24. How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face
    24
    Which statement about B Corp certification is accurate?
  25. How Entrepreneurs Contribute and What They Face
    25
    Why can rural and remote internet access be a challenge for entrepreneurs?

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