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