Monday, 13 May 2013

Questions to be asked.

Scenario
Rachel Owen has worked as a sales manager for the past ten years for a car company. Her salary is reasonable, but Rachel finds the work boring. For the past twelve months, she has been thinking of quitting, to set up her own business, making and selling traditional sweets, biscuits and cakes. What questions should she ask herself as she explores and researches this change in her working life?
Asking these types of questions will help her in the long run if she should change her business or not, it will help her question if she does really want to leave the car company to pursue her passion of making sweets, biscuits and cakes.

Why?
The first question you need to ask yourself is why? So in Rachel’s case, why does she want to make her own business and also why may she want to leave her other job, we know why she wants to leave her job because she finds it boring but she will need to think about why she wants to pursue her passion.
Why not?
Rachel also needs to think about the question ‘why not?’ she may ask why not open her own car rental place but she may answer with that it’s not just the work she finds boring but the whole car rental thing in its self. She may find making traditional sweets, biscuits and cakes more exciting.

What?
She will need to think about ‘what?’ so like what time will she open in the morning? Or what age group will she sell her products for? She will need to think a lot about ‘what?’ because the questions will have an effect on her business. 
She will then need to ask herself how? She need to ask herself how will she get the ingrediants? or how will she get everyone to know about her business? How is a very important question because it challenges' her ideas to see if her business is efficent.
Where?
Where is a good question because it asks where you will place your business and if where you will get your stocks from.
When?
She will also need to question herself when she will open her shop or maybe ask herself when she will need to start telling people about her business.
Exam Type Qustions:
Rachel needs to ask herself the question 'where?' give examples of what type of where question Rachel should ask herself?
If when Rachel gets asked 'why?' and does not have an anwser, what effect might this have on her future business plans?

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