Leadership Skills Worksheet: Motivating a Team
Leader's tip (Praise, thank, be fair): Motivating: praising effort, sharing the goal, celebrating small wins, thanking each member, showing the progress, cheering after a loss. Demotivating: shouting at mistakes, taking all the praise, comparing members, ignoring hard work, having favourites. Fair: jobs rotate, everyone gets a turn, the same rule for friends too. Unfair: friends get the easy jobs, the captain always bats first.
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- 1.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 2.🎉 Your team’s poster won a prize. What should the leader say? (a) “I made it win.” (b) “It was mostly me.” (c) “They only helped.” (d) “We did it together!”
- 3.True or false: “showing the progress” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 4.⚖️ Being fair as a leader means… (a) rules only for others (b) helping friends first (c) changing rules daily (d) same rules for all
- 5.True or false: “having favourites” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 6.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Each idea gets the same two minutes.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 7.True or false: “only pointing out flaws” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 8.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 9.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: thanking each member? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 10.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: only pointing out flaws? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 11.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) sharing the goal (b) having favourites (c) shouting at mistakes (d) comparing members
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) thanking each member (b) taking all the praise (c) having favourites (d) ignoring hard work
- 13.True or false: “celebrating small wins” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) celebrating small wins (b) praising effort (c) ignoring hard work (d) sharing the goal
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) praising effort (b) giving honest credit (c) shouting at mistakes (d) sharing the goal
- 16.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: cheering after a loss? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) ignoring hard work (c) taking all the praise (d) praising effort
- 18.True or false: “giving honest credit” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 19.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) giving honest credit (b) comparing members (c) showing the progress (d) sharing the goal
- 20.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: sharing the goal? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 21.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 22.True or false: “celebrating small wins” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 23.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: celebrating small wins? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 24.True or false: “showing the progress” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) cheering after a loss (b) ignoring hard work (c) showing the progress (d) giving honest credit
- 26.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) having favourites (b) praising effort (c) ignoring hard work (d) only pointing out flaws
- 27.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) comparing members (b) shouting at mistakes (c) celebrating small wins (d) only pointing out flaws
- 30.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) sharing the goal (b) shouting at mistakes (c) showing the progress (d) cheering after a loss
- 31.True or false: “giving honest credit” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 32.🏷️ What is “giving credit”? (a) taking the prize (b) giving marks (c) hiding mistakes (d) saying who did the work
- 33.🌟 Riya stayed late to finish the charts. What is best? (a) thank only friends (b) say nothing (c) claim the charts (d) thank her by name
- 34.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: taking all the praise? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 35.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: praising effort? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 36.True or false: “taking all the praise” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “cheering after a loss” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: “comparing members” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 39.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “The same rule applies to my best friend too.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) sharing the goal (c) taking all the praise (d) comparing members
Answer key
- fair
- “We did it together!”
- False
- same rules for all
- False
- fair
- True
- unfair
- motivating
- demotivating
- sharing the goal
- thanking each member
- False
- ignoring hard work
- shouting at mistakes
- motivating
- praising effort
- False
- comparing members
- motivating
- fair
- True
- motivating
- True
- ignoring hard work
- praising effort
- True
- True
- celebrating small wins
- shouting at mistakes
- True
- saying who did the work
- thank her by name
- demotivating
- motivating
- False
- True
- True
- fair
- sharing the goal
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