Leadership Skills Worksheet: Motivating a Team

Leadership lesson 12: Motivating, giving credit and being fair · Set 679 · 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) say nothing at all (c) cancel practice (d) point out what improved
2. 2.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) celebrating small wins (b) sharing the goal (c) only pointing out flaws (d) thanking each member
3. 3.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) cheering after a loss (b) thanking each member (c) having favourites (d) showing the progress
4. 4.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) cheering after a loss (b) comparing members (c) showing the progress (d) sharing the goal
5. 5.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) ignoring hard work (b) sharing the goal (c) comparing members (d) having favourites
6. 6.True or false: “The same rule applies to my best friend too.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: “Only the toppers may share ideas.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: “praising effort” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) giving honest credit (c) only pointing out flaws (d) taking all the praise
10. 10.True or false: “My friends get the easy jobs; the others clean.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” (a) unfair (b) fair
12. 12.🏷️ What is “giving credit”? (a) giving marks (b) taking the prize (c) saying who did the work (d) hiding mistakes
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring hard work (b) only pointing out flaws (c) praising effort (d) having favourites
14. 14.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: only pointing out flaws? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
15. 15.True or false: “Only the toppers may share ideas.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: “Jobs rotate each week so nobody always cleans.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “Jobs rotate each week so nobody always cleans.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Each idea gets the same two minutes.” (a) fair (b) unfair
19. 19.True or false: “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) ignoring hard work (b) giving honest credit (c) comparing members (d) taking all the praise
21. 21.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” (a) unfair (b) fair
22. 22.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: showing the progress? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
23. 23.True or false: “celebrating small wins” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌟 Riya stayed late to finish the charts. What is best? (a) claim the charts (b) thank only friends (c) thank her by name (d) say nothing
25. 25.⚖️ Being fair as a leader means… (a) changing rules daily (b) same rules for all (c) helping friends first (d) rules only for others
26. 26.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: celebrating small wins? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) taking all the praise (b) thanking each member (c) giving honest credit (d) cheering after a loss
28. 28.🎉 Your team’s poster won a prize. What should the leader say? (a) “I made it win.” (b) “They only helped.” (c) “It was mostly me.” (d) “We did it together!”
29. 29.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: ignoring hard work? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
30. 30.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) only pointing out flaws (b) shouting at mistakes (c) comparing members (d) thanking each member
31. 31.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) thanking each member (b) only pointing out flaws (c) having favourites (d) shouting at mistakes
33. 33.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Jobs rotate each week so nobody always cleans.” (a) unfair (b) fair
34. 34.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) showing the progress (b) taking all the praise (c) thanking each member (d) sharing the goal
35. 35.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: “comparing members” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “shouting at mistakes” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: taking all the praise? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) praising effort (b) celebrating small wins (c) showing the progress (d) shouting at mistakes
40. 40.True or false: “sharing the goal” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True

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