Leadership Skills Worksheet: Motivating a Team

Leadership lesson 12: Motivating, giving credit and being fair · Set 798 · 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.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) having favourites (b) taking all the praise (c) ignoring hard work (d) giving honest credit
2. 2.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: praising effort? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
3. 3.True or false: “having favourites” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) cheering after a loss (c) having favourites (d) ignoring hard work
5. 5.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) praising effort (b) ignoring hard work (c) showing the progress (d) cheering after a loss
6. 6.🎉 Your team’s poster won a prize. What should the leader say? (a) “We did it together!” (b) “They only helped.” (c) “I made it win.” (d) “It was mostly me.”
7. 7.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: only pointing out flaws? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
8. 8.True or false: “taking all the praise” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: having favourites? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
10. 10.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: shouting at mistakes? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
11. 11.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: celebrating small wins? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) praising effort (b) cheering after a loss (c) comparing members (d) giving honest credit
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) praising effort (b) celebrating small wins (c) cheering after a loss (d) having favourites
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) having favourites (b) celebrating small wins (c) only pointing out flaws (d) comparing members
15. 15.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: comparing members? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
16. 16.True or false: “Only the toppers may share ideas.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: sharing the goal? (a) demotivating (b) motivating
18. 18.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) giving honest credit (b) cheering after a loss (c) showing the progress (d) shouting at mistakes
19. 19.🏷️ What is “giving credit”? (a) giving marks (b) saying who did the work (c) hiding mistakes (d) taking the prize
20. 20.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) celebrating small wins (b) comparing members (c) sharing the goal (d) showing the progress
21. 21.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) taking all the praise (b) having favourites (c) thanking each member (d) only pointing out flaws
22. 22.😞 Your team lost the match. How can the captain motivate them? (a) cancel practice (b) say nothing at all (c) point out what improved (d) blame the weakest
23. 23.Which of these is a way to motivate the team? (a) only pointing out flaws (b) having favourites (c) comparing members (d) celebrating small wins
24. 24.True or false: “showing the progress” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: “New members always carry the kit.” is unfair. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “We pick the team by skill trials, not by friendships.” (a) unfair (b) fair
27. 27.True or false: “having favourites” is a way to motivate the team. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) sharing the goal (b) only pointing out flaws (c) having favourites (d) comparing members
29. 29.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) only pointing out flaws (b) showing the progress (c) praising effort (d) celebrating small wins
30. 30.True or false: “only pointing out flaws” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🌟 Riya stayed late to finish the charts. What is best? (a) say nothing (b) claim the charts (c) thank her by name (d) thank only friends
32. 32.⚖️ Fair or unfair? “Each idea gets the same two minutes.” (a) unfair (b) fair
33. 33.Which of these is a way to demotivate the team? (a) cheering after a loss (b) having favourites (c) celebrating small wins (d) showing the progress
34. 34.True or false: “The same rule applies to my best friend too.” is fair. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shouting at mistakes (b) comparing members (c) showing the progress (d) having favourites
36. 36.🔥 Motivating or demotivating: thanking each member? (a) motivating (b) demotivating
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) giving honest credit (b) sharing the goal (c) praising effort (d) only pointing out flaws
38. 38.True or false: “comparing members” is a way to motivate the team. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.⚖️ Being fair as a leader means… (a) rules only for others (b) changing rules daily (c) same rules for all (d) helping friends first
40. 40.True or false: “praising effort” is a way to demotivate the team. (a) True (b) False

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