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