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