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