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.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: cheering after a loss? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) showing the progress (b) only pointing out flaws (c) cheering after a loss (d) sharing the goal
- 3.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: comparing members? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) thanking each member (b) having favourites (c) cheering after a loss (d) showing the progress
- 5.True or false: “Jobs rotate each week so nobody always cleans.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🏷️ What is “giving credit”? (a) saying who did the work (b) giving marks (c) taking the prize (d) hiding mistakes
- 7.True or false: “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
- 8.⚖️ Being fair as a leader means… (a) changing rules daily (b) helping friends first (c) same rules for all (d) rules only for others
- 9.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: giving honest credit? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 10.True or false: “comparing members” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: “Each idea gets the same two minutes.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 12.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) only pointing out flaws (b) celebrating small wins (c) ignoring hard work (d) comparing members
- 13.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: sharing the goal? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 14.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) only pointing out flaws (b) ignoring hard work (c) praising effort (d) shouting at mistakes
- 15.😞 Your team lost the match. How can the captain motivate them? (a) point out what improved (b) blame the weakest (c) say nothing at all (d) cancel practice
- 16.True or false: “Only the toppers may share ideas.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
- 17.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 18.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: only pointing out flaws? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sharing the goal (b) comparing members (c) shouting at mistakes (d) only pointing out flaws
- 20.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) celebrating small wins (b) giving honest credit (c) showing the progress (d) comparing members
- 21.True or false: “Only the toppers may share ideas.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: taking all the praise? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 23.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Only the toppers may share ideas.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 24.True or false: “praising effort” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: “taking all the praise” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎉 Your team’s poster won a prize. What should the leader say? (a) “We did it together!” (b) “I made it win.” (c) “It was mostly me.” (d) “They only helped.”
- 27.True or false: “thanking each member” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🌟 Riya stayed late to finish the charts. What is best? (a) say nothing (b) thank only friends (c) claim the charts (d) thank her by name
- 29.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: ignoring hard work? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
- 30.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) ignoring hard work (b) having favourites (c) cheering after a loss (d) shouting at mistakes
- 31.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “The rule is for you, not for my friends.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 32.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “New members always carry the kit.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 33.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) having favourites (b) praising effort (c) showing the progress (d) celebrating small wins
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) thanking each member (c) praising effort (d) giving honest credit
- 35.True or false: “praising effort” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: “The rule is for you, not for my friends.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “My friends get the easy jobs; the others clean.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
- 39.True or false: “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
- 40.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) sharing the goal (b) ignoring hard work (c) comparing members (d) having favourites
Answer key
- motivating
- only pointing out flaws
- demotivating
- having favourites
- True
- saying who did the work
- True
- same rules for all
- motivating
- True
- True
- celebrating small wins
- motivating
- praising effort
- point out what improved
- True
- fair
- demotivating
- sharing the goal
- comparing members
- False
- demotivating
- unfair
- True
- True
- “We did it together!”
- False
- thank her by name
- demotivating
- cheering after a loss
- unfair
- unfair
- having favourites
- shouting at mistakes
- False
- False
- True
- False
- False
- sharing the goal
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