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