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 made the error in the total. Let me fix it.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 2.🙋 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
- 3.True or false: “leaving the mess behind” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 4.📝 You notice a mistake in your homework that the teacher marked right. What is honest? (a) tear the page out (b) tell the teacher (c) keep quiet (d) change a friend’s work
- 5.True or false: “It is my turn to water the plants. I will do it now.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🧪 Your group got a low mark because your part had errors. What should you say? (a) “The others did badly.” (b) “Marks do not matter.” (c) “The teacher is unfair.” (d) “My part had errors.”
- 7.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: reporting a broken bench? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 8.📚 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
- 9.True or false: “owning up to a mistake” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “I broke the ruler, sorry. I will replace it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) waiting to be told (b) saying “not my job” (c) keeping your desk tidy (d) blaming a teammate
- 12.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) waiting to be told (b) reporting a broken bench (c) owning up to a mistake (d) checking your own work
- 13.True or false: “I didn’t do my part because nobody told me again.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 14.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) hiding a broken item (b) saying “not my job” (c) doing your fair share (d) blaming a teammate
- 15.True or false: “skipping your duty” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 16.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) blaming a teammate (b) keeping your desk tidy (c) hiding a broken item (d) saying “not my job”
- 17.True or false: “cleaning up after art” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🙋 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
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) blaming a teammate (c) owning up to a mistake (d) doing your fair share
- 20.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) reporting a broken bench (c) hiding a broken item (d) doing your fair share
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) cleaning up after art (b) waiting to be told (c) returning borrowed books (d) reporting a broken bench
- 22.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) hiding a broken item (b) fixing what you broke (c) losing borrowed books (d) leaving the mess behind
- 23.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming a teammate? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 24.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: waiting to be told? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 25.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: owning up to a mistake? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 26.True or false: “checking your own work” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: “fixing what you broke” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🙋 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
- 29.True or false: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” is a responsible reply. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) report it to a teacher (b) tell nobody (c) ignore it (d) sit on it anyway
- 31.True or false: “waiting to be told” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: blaming the weather? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 33.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 34.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) skipping your duty (c) checking your own work (d) owning up to a mistake
- 35.🧹 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) pretend you forgot (c) leave it for tomorrow (d) ask a friend to lie
- 36.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) returning borrowed books (c) owning up to a mistake (d) losing borrowed books
- 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) reporting a broken bench (b) checking your own work (c) doing your fair share (d) hiding a broken item
- 38.True or false: “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” is a responsible reply. (a) False (b) True
- 39.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: cleaning up after art? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 40.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: keeping your desk tidy? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
Answer key
- False
- an excuse
- True
- tell the teacher
- False
- “My part had errors.”
- responsible
- tell the librarian
- False
- a responsible reply
- keeping your desk tidy
- waiting to be told
- True
- doing your fair share
- False
- keeping your desk tidy
- False
- a responsible reply
- blaming a teammate
- hiding a broken item
- waiting to be told
- fixing what you broke
- irresponsible
- irresponsible
- responsible
- False
- False
- an excuse
- True
- report it to a teacher
- False
- irresponsible
- False
- skipping your duty
- clean the board first
- losing borrowed books
- hiding a broken item
- False
- responsible
- responsible
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