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