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.True or false: “shouting at mistakes” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 2.True or false: “Each idea gets the same two minutes.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: “praising effort” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 4.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 5.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: sharing the goal? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) giving honest credit (b) cheering after a loss (c) having favourites (d) thanking each member
- 7.🎉 Your team’s poster won a prize. What should the leader say? (a) “It was mostly me.” (b) “We did it together!” (c) “They only helped.” (d) “I made it win.”
- 8.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) cheering after a loss (b) sharing the goal (c) thanking each member (d) taking all the praise
- 9.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: celebrating small wins? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 10.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) showing the progress (b) only pointing out flaws (c) shouting at mistakes (d) ignoring hard work
- 11.True or false: “New members always carry the kit.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
- 12.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 13.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) cheering after a loss (c) comparing members (d) ignoring hard work
- 14.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: giving honest credit? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 15.True or false: “The same rule applies to my best friend too.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
- 16.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: comparing members? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sharing the goal (b) ignoring hard work (c) showing the progress (d) thanking each member
- 18.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “My friends get the easy jobs; the others clean.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 19.True or false: “ignoring hard work” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 20.True or false: “thanking each member” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 21.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) ignoring hard work (b) having favourites (c) thanking each member (d) shouting at mistakes
- 22.True or false: “My friends get the easy jobs; the others clean.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: “I bat first every time because I’m captain.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 24.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🏷️ What is “giving credit”? (a) giving marks (b) taking the prize (c) hiding mistakes (d) saying who did the work
- 26.True or false: “thanking each member” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) cheering after a loss (c) comparing members (d) only pointing out flaws
- 28.True or false: “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
- 29.True or false: “giving honest credit” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: “celebrating small wins” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
- 31.True or false: “New members always carry the kit.” is fair. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” is unfair. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sharing the goal (b) having favourites (c) shouting at mistakes (d) ignoring hard work
- 34.True or false: “Everyone gets one turn to bat before anyone bats twice.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: ignoring hard work? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 36.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “New members always carry the kit.” (a) unfair (b) fair
- 37.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: cheering after a loss? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
- 38.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Jobs rotate each week so nobody always cleans.” (a) fair (b) unfair
- 39.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) showing the progress (b) shouting at mistakes (c) giving honest credit (d) cheering after a loss
- 40.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) showing the progress (b) sharing the goal (c) comparing members (d) giving honest credit
Answer key
- False
- True
- True
- unfair
- motivating
- having favourites
- “We did it together!”
- taking all the praise
- motivating
- showing the progress
- True
- fair
- cheering after a loss
- motivating
- False
- demotivating
- ignoring hard work
- unfair
- False
- False
- thanking each member
- True
- False
- True
- saying who did the work
- True
- cheering after a loss
- False
- True
- True
- False
- False
- sharing the goal
- True
- demotivating
- unfair
- motivating
- fair
- shouting at mistakes
- comparing members
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