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