Reporting to executives requires concise, confident language. This quiz focuses on the collocations used to present findings, summarise progress, escalate risks, and align stakeholders.
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Fill in: 'The CTO will ___ her findings from the quarterly infrastructure review to the board next Tuesday.'
We 'present findings' — 'present' is the formal collocation for delivering structured results to a senior audience in a prepared format. 'Share findings' is informal and implies a less formal channel; 'show findings' is too visual; 'report findings' is close but 'report' as a verb is more common in written contexts.
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Fill in: 'The weekly status email is designed to ___ progress across all active engineering workstreams.'
We 'summarise progress' — 'summarise' is the precise collocation for condensing detailed information into a concise executive view. 'Show progress' is visual and informal; 'outline' implies a structural overview rather than a narrative summary; 'describe progress' is too verbose and journalistic for executive communication.
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Fill in: 'The project manager must ___ blockers to the steering committee as soon as they are identified.'
We 'flag blockers' — 'flag' is the common collocation in agile and project management for quickly drawing attention to an impediment. 'Report blockers' is more formal and suits written updates; 'raise' is standard in formal meetings; 'mention' is too informal and does not convey urgency.
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Fill in: 'If the timeline slips by more than two weeks, we will need to ___ the delivery risk to the executive sponsor.'
We 'escalate risks' — 'escalate' is the formal term for passing a problem to a higher authority because it exceeds the current level's authority to resolve. 'Report risks' is accurate but does not imply upward movement in hierarchy; 'communicate' is too vague; 'raise' is informal and typically used in meetings.
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Fill in: 'Before the roadmap is approved, we need to ___ priorities with the CFO and CPO in the same room.'
We 'align on priorities' — 'align on' is the executive communication standard for reaching shared agreement across functions. 'Agree about' is grammatically correct but informal; 'discuss' describes the process, not the outcome; 'settle priorities' implies the discussion was contentious and is less neutral.