Leadership Skills Worksheet: Growth Mindset
Leader's tip (Not yet — but learning): Growth mindset: “Mistakes help me learn.”, “If I practise, I will get better.”, “Let me try a different way.” Fixed mindset: “I’ll never be good at drawing.”, “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.”, “She is just born talented.” Turn fixed into growth by adding “yet”, praising effort (“You worked so hard!”) and changing the plan, not giving up.
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- 1.True or false: “Mistakes help me learn.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I’ll never be good at drawing.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 3.True or false: “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: “hiding your mistakes” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) practising hard skills (b) enjoying challenges (c) envying others (d) trying new strategies
- 6.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Feedback is an attack on me.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 7.🧠 What does a growth mindset believe? (a) smart is born (b) effort is useless (c) talent is fixed (d) skills grow with effort
- 8.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) enjoying challenges (b) trying new strategies (c) hiding your mistakes (d) asking for help early
- 9.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) ignoring feedback (b) giving up quickly (c) learning from feedback (d) sticking to easy tasks
- 10.True or false: “Feedback is an attack on me.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: “Why try? I’ll fail anyway.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Mistakes help me learn.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 13.🌱 Which word turns “I can’t do fractions” into a growth statement? (a) yet (b) never (c) again (d) ever
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) giving up quickly (b) ignoring feedback (c) sticking to easy tasks (d) practising hard skills
- 15.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: trying new strategies? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 16.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) envying others (b) practising hard skills (c) praising effort (d) enjoying challenges
- 17.True or false: “envying others” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: “If I practise, I will get better.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 19.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “If I fail, it means I’m not smart.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 20.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I will ask for help and try again.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
- 21.🎨 A classmate draws better than you. A growth mindset says… (a) “She is just lucky.” (b) “I’ll never draw well.” (c) “Drawing is silly.” (d) “I can learn from her.”
- 22.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) hiding your mistakes (b) ignoring feedback (c) praising effort (d) envying others
- 23.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: praising effort? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 24.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I only do what I’m already good at.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 25.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: enjoying challenges? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 26.True or false: “practising hard skills” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: “Let me try a different way.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) asking for help early (b) envying others (c) avoiding challenges (d) giving up quickly
- 29.True or false: “I will ask for help and try again.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: learning from feedback? (a) fixed habit (b) growth habit
- 31.True or false: “I will ask for help and try again.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: “asking for help early” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: “I only do what I’m already good at.” shows a growth mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 35.True or false: “hiding your mistakes” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: asking for help early? (a) growth habit (b) fixed habit
- 37.🏅 Which praise builds a growth mindset? (a) “You worked so hard!” (b) “You were born smart.” (c) “It’s easy for you.” (d) “You are a genius!”
- 38.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “I am just not a maths person.” (a) fixed mindset (b) growth mindset
- 39.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) practising hard skills (b) ignoring feedback (c) praising effort (d) trying new strategies
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) avoiding challenges (c) practising hard skills (d) asking for help early
Answer key
- True
- fixed mindset
- False
- True
- envying others
- fixed mindset
- skills grow with effort
- hiding your mistakes
- learning from feedback
- False
- False
- growth mindset
- yet
- practising hard skills
- growth habit
- envying others
- False
- True
- fixed mindset
- growth mindset
- “I can learn from her.”
- praising effort
- growth habit
- fixed mindset
- growth habit
- True
- True
- asking for help early
- True
- growth habit
- False
- False
- True
- False
- False
- growth habit
- “You worked so hard!”
- fixed mindset
- ignoring feedback
- avoiding challenges
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