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.🧹 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) leave it for tomorrow (c) pretend you forgot (d) clean the board first
- 2.True or false: “I forgot the chart. I will bring it tomorrow before class.” is a responsible reply. (a) True (b) False
- 3.True or false: “keeping your desk tidy” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 4.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) hiding a broken item (c) doing your class duty (d) owning up to a mistake
- 5.True or false: “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: reporting a broken bench? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 7.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) doing your fair share (b) saying “not my job” (c) returning borrowed books (d) reporting a broken bench
- 8.True or false: “I lost the book, but books get lost all the time.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: cleaning up after art? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping your desk tidy (b) blaming a teammate (c) blaming the weather (d) saying “not my job”
- 11.True or false: “fixing what you broke” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 12.🌱 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) water them before you go (d) wait for someone else
- 13.🧪 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.”
- 14.🙋 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
- 15.📚 You lost a library book. What is the responsible step? (a) tell the librarian (b) hide it and stay quiet (c) say it was never issued (d) blame your brother
- 16.True or false: “blaming the weather” is an irresponsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 17.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) owning up to a mistake (b) doing your fair share (c) leaving the mess behind (d) reporting a broken bench
- 18.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “It is my turn to water the plants. I will do it now.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 19.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “It’s not my fault — the others were too slow.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 20.True or false: “leaving the mess behind” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🪑 You see a broken bench in class that could hurt someone. What is best? (a) ignore it (b) report it to a teacher (c) tell nobody (d) sit on it anyway
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing your class duty (b) returning borrowed books (c) reporting a broken bench (d) hiding a broken item
- 23.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “The chart is late because my team is useless.” (a) an excuse (b) a responsible reply
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking your own work (b) saying “not my job” (c) returning borrowed books (d) doing your class duty
- 25.🙋 Is this a responsible reply or an excuse? “Not my problem — someone else can clean it.” (a) a responsible reply (b) an excuse
- 26.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: hiding a broken item? (a) responsible (b) irresponsible
- 27.True or false: “doing your class duty” is a responsible habit. (a) False (b) True
- 28.Which of these is an irresponsible habit? (a) doing your class duty (b) fixing what you broke (c) waiting to be told (d) owning up to a mistake
- 29.True or false: “My part is late. I will finish it tonight and tell the team.” is an excuse. (a) False (b) True
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) losing borrowed books (b) owning up to a mistake (c) saying “not my job” (d) hiding a broken item
- 31.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) waiting to be told (b) blaming the weather (c) hiding a broken item (d) keeping your desk tidy
- 32.True or false: “skipping your duty” is a responsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 33.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: doing your class duty? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 34.True or false: “keeping your desk tidy” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🙋 Responsible or irresponsible: returning borrowed books? (a) irresponsible (b) responsible
- 36.True or false: “blaming a teammate” is an irresponsible habit. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) saying “not my job” (b) skipping your duty (c) doing your fair share (d) hiding a broken item
- 38.🙋 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
- 39.Which of these is a responsible habit? (a) leaving the mess behind (b) waiting to be told (c) checking your own work (d) saying “not my job”
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking your own work (b) waiting to be told (c) saying “not my job” (d) blaming a teammate
Answer key
- clean the board first
- True
- True
- hiding a broken item
- True
- responsible
- saying “not my job”
- True
- responsible
- keeping your desk tidy
- False
- water them before you go
- “My part had errors.”
- an excuse
- tell the librarian
- True
- leaving the mess behind
- a responsible reply
- an excuse
- False
- report it to a teacher
- hiding a broken item
- an excuse
- saying “not my job”
- an excuse
- irresponsible
- True
- waiting to be told
- False
- owning up to a mistake
- keeping your desk tidy
- False
- responsible
- False
- responsible
- True
- doing your fair share
- a responsible reply
- checking your own work
- checking your own work
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