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