Leadership Skills Worksheet: Taking Responsibility
Leader's tip (Own it, fix it): Responsible: owning up to a mistake, doing your class duty, returning borrowed books, reporting a broken bench, checking your own work. Irresponsible: blaming a teammate, saying “not my job”, hiding a broken item, leaving the mess behind, waiting to be told. A responsible reply owns the problem and says how it will be fixed: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.”
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- 1.📚 You lost a library book. What is the responsible step? (a) hide it and stay quiet (b) tell the librarian (c) blame your brother (d) say it was never issued
- 2.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) owning up to a mistake (b) cleaning up after art (c) reporting a broken bench (d) saying “not my job”
- 3.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) hiding a broken item (b) saying “not my job” (c) waiting to be told (d) doing your fair share
- 4.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 5.True or false: “waiting to be told” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) blaming the weather (c) reporting a broken bench (d) returning borrowed books
- 7.True or false: “returning borrowed books” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) leaving the mess behind (b) waiting to be told (c) saying “not my job” (d) doing your fair share
- 9.True or false: “returning borrowed books” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 10.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: checking your own work? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 11.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) losing borrowed books (c) keeping your desk tidy (d) waiting to be told
- 12.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) tell nobody (b) report it to a teacher (c) sit on it anyway (d) ignore it
- 13.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) waiting to be told (b) hiding a broken item (c) owning up to a mistake (d) skipping your duty
- 14.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming a teammate (b) blaming the weather (c) hiding a broken item (d) checking your own work
- 15.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “The chart is late because my team is useless.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 16.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 17.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: owning up to a mistake? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) doing your class duty (c) reporting a broken bench (d) skipping your duty
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming a teammate (b) leaving the mess behind (c) skipping your duty (d) checking your own work
- 20.True or false: “I made the error in the total. Let me fix it.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing your class duty (b) doing your fair share (c) returning borrowed books (d) saying “not my job”
- 22.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) fixing what you broke (b) leaving the mess behind (c) skipping your duty (d) waiting to be told
- 23.True or false: “saying “not my job”” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: hiding a broken item? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 25.True or false: “hiding a broken item” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming a teammate? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) waiting to be told (b) saying “not my job” (c) reporting a broken bench (d) hiding a broken item
- 28.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) leaving the mess behind (b) blaming a teammate (c) saying “not my job” (d) returning borrowed books
- 29.True or false: “reporting a broken bench” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 30.True or false: “hiding a broken item” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 31.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) cleaning up after art (b) owning up to a mistake (c) leaving the mess behind (d) doing your fair share
- 32.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “It is my turn to water the plants. I will do it now.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming a teammate (b) doing your fair share (c) doing your class duty (d) owning up to a mistake
- 34.True or false: “reporting a broken bench” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 36.True or false: “skipping your duty” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: doing your class duty? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 38.🧹 It is your turn to clean the board, but your friends are going out to play. What do you do? (a) ask a friend to lie (b) leave it for tomorrow (c) clean the board first (d) pretend you forgot
- 39.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: saying “not my job”? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding a broken item (b) fixing what you broke (c) returning borrowed books (d) checking your own work
Answer key
- tell the librarian
- saying “not my job”
- doing your fair share
- False
- True
- blaming the weather
- False
- doing your fair share
- True
- responsible
- keeping your desk tidy
- report it to a teacher
- owning up to a mistake
- checking your own work
- an excuse
- an excuse
- responsible
- skipping your duty
- checking your own work
- False
- saying “not my job”
- fixing what you broke
- True
- irresponsible
- True
- irresponsible
- reporting a broken bench
- returning borrowed books
- False
- False
- leaving the mess behind
- a responsible reply
- blaming a teammate
- True
- a responsible reply
- True
- responsible
- clean the board first
- irresponsible
- hiding a broken item
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