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