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