CMI Sri Lanka’s inaugural Management Quiz on 21 September
Monday, 15 September 2014 00:15
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Having noted the growing enthusiasm for quizzing in Sri Lanka and with the intention of enhancing the knowledge and competitive skills of Sri Lankan managers, The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Sri Lanka Branch has made arrangements to organise their first ever Management Quiz which will be held on 21 September at the JAIC Hilton Residencies.
CMI Sri Lanka is privileged to team up with International Quizzing Association (IQA) Sri Lanka, that has been conducting many table quizzes over the past decade and all questions for this inaugural Management Quiz will be set up by IQA’s country representative for Sri Lanka based on the standards of the World Quizzing Association.
Dialog Enterprise has joined CMI Sri Lanka as the platinum sponsor for this quiz while Prudential Shipping Lines will be their Gold Sponsor with ICBT Campus supporting the initiative as the Silver Sponsor. Daily FT will be their Print Media Partner while Helanka Vacations will be the Event Management Partner of CMI Sri Lanka Branch.
The event will take the form of a team quiz, where the Quiz Master will read out the questions, twice over and the team members will discuss among them and decide on the answer and write it on an answer script. There will be five rounds of questions with 10 in each round.
The questions will also include visuals/video clips based questions and will cover the following focus areas. Current Affairs, General Knowledge and Enterprise Solutions, Sports & Games, Science including Astronomy and Space, History and Literature especially on Management/ Art/Entertainment and a specific round of questions on Management (concepts and practices, famous personalities , famous corporations and institutions )
CMI has decided to open this quiz for teams from professional education institutes, banks, finance companies and insurance companies, government organisations, ict companies and audit firms, other mercantile sector companies, BPO companies and teams formed by other quiz enthusiasts.
The winners will be presented with a cash award of Rs. 150,000 and the ‘CMI Management Quiz’ Trophy while the runners up will receive a cash prize of Rs. 100,000 and a trophy followed by a prize of Rs. 50,000 for the 3rd placed team. A special recognition award will also be presented to the team scoring the highest marks in the Management round of questions.
As the competition will have to be limited to a maximum of 40 teams, applications are now being accepted by CMI Sri Lanka on a first come first served basis. Contact 0777 418191 or email [email protected] for details.
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) UK is the only chartered body for the profession of Management with over 90,000 members. CMI is committed to uplift the Professionalism of Managers in order create ‘Better led and better managed organisations’. Being one of the eight countries in the world to have their own branches of CMI, the Sri Lanka Branch set up in 1996 has been in the forefront championing the CMI vision and have carried out many activities towards uplifting the professional standards of Sri Lankan managers.
