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