Leadership Skills Worksheet: Part 1 Test
Leader's tip (Lead yourself first): Find the skill in the question: responsibility, promises, self-discipline, time, confidence, mistakes or mindset. Use that lesson’s tip — own it and fix it, promise less and deliver, homework first, steps with dates, confident not cocky, what can we learn, not yet. For day sums, add the days the steps need and take them away from the days you have.
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- 1.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “We lost. This team is hopeless.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 2.🔁 Why are mistakes useful? (a) they never help (b) they mean you are bad (c) they show what to fix (d) they should be hidden
- 3.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: saying “I’m just bad”? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 4.True or false: “Mistakes help me learn.” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 5.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) play first
- 6.True or false: “volunteering to lead” shows low confidence. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 8.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) practising hard skills (b) ignoring feedback (c) avoiding challenges (d) giving up quickly
- 9.Which of these shows low confidence? (a) acting like a know-all (b) asking for help (c) bragging after a win (d) hiding at the back
- 10.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 11.🏅 Which praise builds a growth mindset? (a) “It’s easy for you.” (b) “You are a genius!” (c) “You were born smart.” (d) “You worked so hard!”
- 12.True or false: “Just one more game… and one more.” shows self-control. (a) False (b) True
- 13.Which of these is a growth-mindset habit? (a) enjoying challenges (b) sticking to easy tasks (c) giving up quickly (d) avoiding challenges
- 14.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
- 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) praising effort (b) asking for help early (c) ignoring feedback (d) trying new strategies
- 17.True or false: “practising the weak part” is learning from a mistake. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) agreeing to everything (b) writing promises down (c) returning things on time (d) promising only what fits
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) scrolling during study (b) finishing what you start (c) gaming till midnight (d) snacking instead of work
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying “I can’t” (b) never raising a hand (c) bragging after a win (d) avoiding new things
- 22.True or false: “Feedback is an attack on me.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) False (b) True
- 23.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🤝 Reliable or unreliable: saying no if you can’t? (a) reliable (b) unreliable
- 25.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “I didn’t get the role, but I can help backstage.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 26.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) losing borrowed books (b) waiting to be told (c) blaming a teammate (d) returning borrowed books
- 27.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: asking for help? (a) showing off (b) low confidence (c) confidence
- 28.🌱 Growth or fixed mindset habit: enjoying challenges? (a) growth habit (b) fixed habit
- 29.True or false: “cleaning up after art” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 30.True or false: “practising hard skills” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) enjoying challenges (b) sticking to easy tasks (c) asking for help early (d) praising effort
- 32.🤝 Reliable or unreliable: returning things on time? (a) reliable (b) unreliable
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) never raising a hand (b) avoiding new things (c) saying “I can’t” (d) asking for help
- 35.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: tearing up the work? (a) giving up (b) learning from it
- 36.Which of these shows no self-discipline? (a) practising daily (b) waking up late daily (c) sleeping on time (d) phone away for study
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) bragging after a win (b) mocking weaker players (c) hiding at the back (d) boasting about marks
- 38.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: acting like a know-all? (a) confidence (b) showing off (c) low confidence
- 39.True or false: “saying “I’ll try”” shows confidence. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🌱 Growth mindset or fixed mindset? “Hard work helps me improve.” (a) growth mindset (b) fixed mindset
Answer key
- a negative attitude
- they show what to fix
- giving up
- True
- study for the test
- False
- a responsible reply
- practising hard skills
- hiding at the back
- an excuse
- “You worked so hard!”
- False
- enjoying challenges
- False
- setting mini-deadlines
- ignoring feedback
- True
- agreeing to everything
- finishing what you start
- doing only easy bits
- bragging after a win
- True
- True
- reliable
- a positive attitude
- returning borrowed books
- confidence
- growth habit
- True
- True
- sticking to easy tasks
- reliable
- setting mini-deadlines
- asking for help
- giving up
- waking up late daily
- hiding at the back
- showing off
- True
- growth mindset
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