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.True or false: “fixing what you broke” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 3.True or false: “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🧪 Your group got a low mark because your part had errors. What should you say? (a) “The teacher is unfair.” (b) “The others did badly.” (c) “My part had errors.” (d) “Marks do not matter.”
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hiding a broken item (b) waiting to be told (c) doing your fair share (d) blaming the weather
- 6.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: owning up to a mistake? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 7.🙋 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
- 8.🎒 What does being responsible mostly mean? (a) doing only fun tasks (b) waiting to be told (c) doing what you should (d) blaming others
- 9.🧹 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) pretend you forgot (d) clean the board first
- 10.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 11.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) losing borrowed books (b) owning up to a mistake (c) skipping your duty (d) waiting to be told
- 12.True or false: “losing borrowed books” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 13.True or false: “It is my turn to water the plants. I will do it now.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: “owning up to a mistake” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: “returning borrowed books” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: “The chart is late because my team is useless.” is a responsible reply. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: leaving the mess behind? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 18.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: reporting a broken bench? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 19.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) leaving the mess behind (b) checking your own work (c) blaming a teammate (d) blaming the weather
- 20.True or false: “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 21.True or false: “blaming the weather” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “The chart is late because my team is useless.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 23.True or false: “leaving the mess behind” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: losing borrowed books? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) cleaning up after art (c) blaming a teammate (d) reporting a broken bench
- 26.True or false: “I made the error in the total. Let me fix it.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing your fair share (b) owning up to a mistake (c) saying “not my job” (d) reporting a broken bench
- 28.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming a teammate (b) saying “not my job” (c) waiting to be told (d) keeping your desk tidy
- 29.📚 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
- 30.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) owning up to a mistake (b) losing borrowed books (c) returning borrowed books (d) checking your own work
- 31.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 32.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) cleaning up after art (b) reporting a broken bench (c) doing your class duty (d) leaving the mess behind
- 33.📝 You notice a mistake in your homework that the teacher marked right. What is honest? (a) change a friend’s work (b) tear the page out (c) tell the teacher (d) keep quiet
- 34.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: saying “not my job”? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) losing borrowed books (b) blaming a teammate (c) fixing what you broke (d) blaming the weather
- 36.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: doing your fair share? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) doing your class duty (c) skipping your duty (d) fixing what you broke
- 38.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) tell nobody (b) report it to a teacher (c) ignore it (d) sit on it anyway
- 39.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: cleaning up after art? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 40.🙋 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
Answer key
- False
- a responsible reply
- True
- “My part had errors.”
- doing your fair share
- responsible
- an excuse
- doing what you should
- clean the board first
- an excuse
- owning up to a mistake
- True
- False
- False
- False
- False
- irresponsible
- responsible
- checking your own work
- True
- False
- an excuse
- True
- irresponsible
- blaming a teammate
- False
- saying “not my job”
- keeping your desk tidy
- tell the librarian
- losing borrowed books
- False
- leaving the mess behind
- tell the teacher
- irresponsible
- fixing what you broke
- responsible
- skipping your duty
- report it to a teacher
- responsible
- a responsible reply
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