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