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.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) skipping your duty (b) blaming the weather (c) owning up to a mistake (d) hiding a broken item
- 2.True or false: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 4.🪑 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
- 5.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) skipping your duty (b) leaving the mess behind (c) hiding a broken item (d) fixing what you broke
- 6.📝 You notice a mistake in your homework that the teacher marked right. What is honest? (a) tell the teacher (b) change a friend’s work (c) tear the page out (d) keep quiet
- 7.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 8.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is an excuse. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming the weather (b) saying “not my job” (c) owning up to a mistake (d) waiting to be told
- 10.True or false: “cleaning up after art” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: doing your fair share? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 12.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) leaving the mess behind (b) doing your fair share (c) skipping your duty (d) blaming a teammate
- 13.True or false: “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 14.True or false: “skipping your duty” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 15.🧹 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) clean the board first (d) leave it for tomorrow
- 16.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “The chart is late because my team is useless.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 17.True or false: “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 18.True or false: “My part is late. I will finish it tonight and tell the team.” is a responsible reply. (a) True (b) False
- 19.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) returning borrowed books (c) fixing what you broke (d) doing your fair share
- 20.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) checking your own work (b) leaving the mess behind (c) blaming a teammate (d) skipping your duty
- 21.🙋 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
- 22.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming the weather? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 23.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: owning up to a mistake? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 24.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: fixing what you broke? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 25.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: returning borrowed books? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blaming a teammate (b) returning borrowed books (c) leaving the mess behind (d) blaming the weather
- 27.True or false: “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🙋 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
- 29.🙋 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
- 30.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) returning borrowed books (b) losing borrowed books (c) doing your class duty (d) fixing what you broke
- 31.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: doing your class duty? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 32.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: keeping your desk tidy? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing your class duty (b) owning up to a mistake (c) cleaning up after art (d) losing borrowed books
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) fixing what you broke (b) waiting to be told (c) skipping your duty (d) losing borrowed books
- 35.🙋 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
- 36.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 37.True or false: “returning borrowed books” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 38.True or false: “doing your class duty” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: losing borrowed books? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 40.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) fixing what you broke (c) hiding a broken item (d) doing your class duty
Answer key
- owning up to a mistake
- False
- an excuse
- report it to a teacher
- fixing what you broke
- tell the teacher
- a responsible reply
- True
- owning up to a mistake
- False
- responsible
- doing your fair share
- False
- False
- clean the board first
- an excuse
- True
- True
- saying “not my job”
- checking your own work
- a responsible reply
- irresponsible
- responsible
- responsible
- responsible
- returning borrowed books
- False
- an excuse
- a responsible reply
- losing borrowed books
- responsible
- responsible
- losing borrowed books
- fixing what you broke
- an excuse
- a responsible reply
- True
- False
- irresponsible
- hiding a broken item
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