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