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