Leadership Skills Worksheet: Motivating a Team

Leadership lesson 12: Motivating, giving credit and being fair · Set 57 · 40 questions

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.

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

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