Leadership Skills Worksheet: Learning from Mistakes
Leader's tip (What can we learn?): Learning from it: asking what went wrong, trying a new method, noting the lesson, saying sorry and fixing, practising the weak part. Giving up: quitting the club, tearing up the work, never trying again, blaming bad luck, hiding the result. Positive attitude = seeing ways forward. Negative = “This team is hopeless.” After a loss, a captain says “Proud of our effort,” then plans what to improve.
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- 1.🧪 Your team’s science model fell apart at the fair. A positive leader says… (a) “Let’s never try again.” (b) “This team is useless.” (c) “I knew it would fail.” (d) “What can we learn?”
- 2.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: hiding the result? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 3.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “The rain cancelled the match — let’s practise indoors.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 4.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: asking what went wrong? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 5.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “Rain again. Everything always goes wrong.” (a) a positive attitude (b) a negative attitude
- 6.🙏 You said something unkind to a teammate in anger. What should you do? (a) blame them (b) say it again (c) pretend it didn’t happen (d) say sorry and mean it
- 7.❌ You got 4 out of 10 in a quiz. What is the best next step? (a) find what went wrong (b) blame the questions (c) stop studying (d) hide the paper
- 8.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “Your idea will never work.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 9.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “We lost today, but our passing got better.” (a) a positive attitude (b) a negative attitude
- 10.🌤️ What does a positive attitude mean? (a) complaining a lot (b) seeing ways forward (c) blaming others (d) expecting the worst
- 11.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: saying sorry and fixing? (a) giving up (b) learning from it
- 12.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: quitting the club? (a) giving up (b) learning from it
- 13.True or false: “noting the lesson” is learning from a mistake. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🔁 Why are mistakes useful? (a) they never help (b) they should be hidden (c) they show what to fix (d) they mean you are bad
- 15.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “I didn’t get the role, so I quit.” (a) a positive attitude (b) a negative attitude
- 16.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: asking for feedback? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying “I’m just bad” (b) asking for feedback (c) never trying again (d) tearing up the work
- 18.True or false: “Rain again. Everything always goes wrong.” shows a negative attitude. (a) False (b) True
- 19.Which of these is giving up after a mistake? (a) noting the lesson (b) never trying again (c) saying sorry and fixing (d) asking what went wrong
- 20.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “Good try! Let’s fix the ending together.” (a) a negative attitude (b) a positive attitude
- 21.True or false: “saying “I’m just bad”” is learning from a mistake. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: “This is too hard. Why even try?” shows a negative attitude. (a) True (b) False
- 23.True or false: “The rain cancelled the match — let’s practise indoors.” shows a negative attitude. (a) False (b) True
- 24.True or false: “This is hard, but I’ll break it into steps.” shows a positive attitude. (a) False (b) True
- 25.True or false: “trying a new method” is giving up after a mistake. (a) True (b) False
- 26.Which of these is giving up after a mistake? (a) asking what went wrong (b) hiding the result (c) trying a new method (d) practising the weak part
- 27.True or false: “We lost today, but our passing got better.” shows a negative attitude. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: never trying again? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 29.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: trying a new method? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
- 30.Which of these is giving up after a mistake? (a) blaming bad luck (b) practising the weak part (c) asking what went wrong (d) saying sorry and fixing
- 31.⚽ Your team lost the final. What should the captain say? (a) “Proud of our effort.” (b) “You all let me down.” (c) “It was the referee.” (d) “We are the worst.”
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) saying sorry and fixing (b) never trying again (c) saying “I’m just bad” (d) quitting the club
- 33.True or false: “This is too hard. Why even try?” shows a positive attitude. (a) False (b) True
- 34.True or false: “quitting the club” is learning from a mistake. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: “tearing up the work” is learning from a mistake. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🌤️ Positive or negative attitude? “We lost. This team is hopeless.” (a) a positive attitude (b) a negative attitude
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tearing up the work (b) saying sorry and fixing (c) practising the weak part (d) trying a new method
- 38.Which of these is learning from a mistake? (a) quitting the club (b) saying sorry and fixing (c) never trying again (d) hiding the result
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming bad luck (b) tearing up the work (c) saying “I’m just bad” (d) noting the lesson
- 40.🔁 After a mistake — learning from it or giving up: saying “I’m just bad”? (a) learning from it (b) giving up
Answer key
- “What can we learn?”
- giving up
- a positive attitude
- learning from it
- a negative attitude
- say sorry and mean it
- find what went wrong
- a negative attitude
- a positive attitude
- seeing ways forward
- learning from it
- giving up
- True
- they show what to fix
- a negative attitude
- learning from it
- asking for feedback
- True
- never trying again
- a positive attitude
- False
- True
- False
- True
- False
- hiding the result
- False
- giving up
- learning from it
- blaming bad luck
- “Proud of our effort.”
- saying sorry and fixing
- False
- False
- False
- a negative attitude
- tearing up the work
- saying sorry and fixing
- noting the lesson
- giving up
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