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