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.🔁 Why are mistakes useful? (a) they show what to fix (b) they never help (c) they mean you are bad (d) they should be hidden
- 2.🤝 Reliable or unreliable: telling early if delayed? (a) unreliable (b) reliable
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying “I’m just bad” (b) tearing up the work (c) quitting the club (d) asking for feedback
- 4.⚽ Your team lost the final. What should the captain say? (a) “Proud of our effort.” (b) “You all let me down.” (c) “We are the worst.” (d) “It was the referee.”
- 5.Which of these is an unreliable habit? (a) writing promises down (b) promising only what fits (c) finishing on the set day (d) agreeing to everything
- 6.Which of these is a reliable habit? (a) coming when you said (b) forgetting what you said (c) saying yes to please all (d) agreeing to everything
- 7.Which of these is a fixed-mindset habit? (a) enjoying challenges (b) learning from feedback (c) asking for help early (d) giving up quickly
- 8.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “I didn’t get the role, but I can help backstage.” (a) a positive attitude (b) a negative attitude
- 9.🤝 Reliable or unreliable: writing promises down? (a) unreliable (b) reliable
- 10.True or false: “checking your own work” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 11.⏰ You promised to finish the team slides by Thursday, but you fall ill. What should you do? (a) blame the computer (b) send them on Monday (c) tell the team early (d) say nothing
- 12.True or false: “I promised to come at 4, but I came at 5 without telling anyone.” is a promise broken. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: “Her work is great — what can I learn from it?” shows a growth mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: “returning things on time” is an unreliable habit. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: “making eye contact” shows confidence. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: “I am just not a maths person.” shows a fixed mindset. (a) True (b) False
- 17.Which of these is an unreliable habit? (a) promising then vanishing (b) writing promises down (c) saying no if you can’t (d) finishing on the set day
- 18.True or false: “saying “I’ll try”” shows confidence. (a) True (b) False
- 19.🎨 A classmate draws better than you. A growth mindset says… (a) “I can learn from her.” (b) “Drawing is silly.” (c) “She is just lucky.” (d) “I’ll never draw well.”
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) homework before games (b) starting without nagging (c) phone away for study (d) waking up late daily
- 21.True or false: “giving up quickly” is a growth-mindset habit. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying “I can’t” (b) avoiding new things (c) asking for help (d) mumbling answers
- 23.Which of these is learning from a mistake? (a) blaming bad luck (b) saying “I’m just bad” (c) tearing up the work (d) practising the weak part
- 24.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 25.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: never raising a hand? (a) showing off (b) low confidence (c) confidence
- 26.⏱️ Self-control or giving in? “Just one more game… and one more.” (a) giving in (b) self-control
- 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
- 28.🤝 A friend asks for help on Saturday, but you already promised to visit your grandmother. What is best? (a) skip Grandma’s visit (b) say yes to both (c) say no kindly (d) switch off your phone
- 29.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming a teammate? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 30.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
- 31.True or false: “hiding your mistakes” is a fixed-mindset habit. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “We lost today, but our passing got better.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 33.True or false: “asking what went wrong” is giving up after a mistake. (a) True (b) False
- 34.True or false: “standing up straight” is showing off. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🧹 It is your turn to clean the board, but your friends are going out to play. What do you do? (a) pretend you forgot (b) leave it for tomorrow (c) clean the board first (d) ask a friend to lie
- 36.💪 Confidence, low confidence or showing off: boasting about marks? (a) low confidence (b) confidence (c) showing off
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying yes to please all (b) coming when you said (c) telling early if delayed (d) returning things on time
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) coming when you said (b) saying no if you can’t (c) arriving very late (d) returning things on time
- 39.True or false: “leaving tasks half-done” shows no self-discipline. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “The chart is late because my team is useless.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
Answer key
- they show what to fix
- reliable
- asking for feedback
- “Proud of our effort.”
- agreeing to everything
- coming when you said
- giving up quickly
- a positive attitude
- reliable
- True
- tell the team early
- True
- True
- False
- True
- True
- promising then vanishing
- True
- “I can learn from her.”
- waking up late daily
- False
- asking for help
- practising the weak part
- True
- low confidence
- giving in
- starting early
- say no kindly
- irresponsible
- False
- True
- a positive attitude
- False
- False
- clean the board first
- showing off
- saying yes to please all
- arriving very late
- True
- an excuse
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