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 see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) tell nobody (b) sit on it anyway (c) report it to a teacher (d) ignore it
- 2.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming the weather (b) waiting to be told (c) saying “not my job” (d) fixing what you broke
- 3.🧪 Your group got a low mark because your part had errors. What should you say? (a) “The teacher is unfair.” (b) “Marks do not matter.” (c) “My part had errors.” (d) “The others did badly.”
- 4.True or false: “doing your class duty” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: “I made the error in the total. Let me fix it.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 6.True or false: “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🧹 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
- 8.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 9.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: leaving the mess behind? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 10.True or false: “The chart is late because my team is useless.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: “losing borrowed books” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 12.📚 You lost a library book. What is the responsible step? (a) tell the librarian (b) hide it and stay quiet (c) say it was never issued (d) blame your brother
- 13.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: skipping your duty? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 14.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) owning up to a mistake (b) blaming the weather (c) blaming a teammate (d) skipping your duty
- 15.True or false: “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 16.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) fixing what you broke (b) reporting a broken bench (c) saying “not my job” (d) doing your fair share
- 17.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: checking your own work? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 18.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “My part is late. I will finish it tonight and tell the team.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 19.True or false: “waiting to be told” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 20.True or false: “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 21.True or false: “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 22.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) losing borrowed books (c) hiding a broken item (d) blaming a teammate
- 23.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 24.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: saying “not my job”? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 25.True or false: “fixing what you broke” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cleaning up after art (b) blaming the weather (c) returning borrowed books (d) fixing what you broke
- 27.📝 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) keep quiet (d) tell the teacher
- 28.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: returning borrowed books? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 30.True or false: “owning up to a mistake” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: hiding a broken item? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 32.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) blaming the weather (c) reporting a broken bench (d) fixing what you broke
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming a teammate (b) doing your class duty (c) fixing what you broke (d) owning up to a mistake
- 34.True or false: “keeping your desk tidy” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) waiting to be told (b) fixing what you broke (c) blaming a teammate (d) skipping your duty
- 36.True or false: “owning up to a mistake” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 37.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 38.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: reporting a broken bench? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) hiding a broken item (c) waiting to be told (d) blaming the weather
- 40.🎒 What does being responsible mostly mean? (a) blaming others (b) waiting to be told (c) doing only fun tasks (d) doing what you should
Answer key
- report it to a teacher
- fixing what you broke
- “My part had errors.”
- False
- False
- True
- clean the board first
- an excuse
- irresponsible
- True
- False
- tell the librarian
- irresponsible
- owning up to a mistake
- True
- saying “not my job”
- responsible
- a responsible reply
- False
- True
- False
- keeping your desk tidy
- an excuse
- irresponsible
- False
- blaming the weather
- tell the teacher
- False
- responsible
- False
- irresponsible
- blaming the weather
- blaming a teammate
- False
- fixing what you broke
- True
- a responsible reply
- responsible
- reporting a broken bench
- doing what you should
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