Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 122 · 40 questions

Leader's tip (Steps, dates, spare days): List the steps and give each step a number of days and a mini-deadline. Days needed = add up the steps. Spare days = days you have − days needed. Due in 14 days, tasks 3 + 5 + 2 = 10 days → 4 spare days. Do what is due sooner first, start early and check your progress every week.

1. 1.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
7. 7.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.📅 Your history chart is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
12. 12.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
14. 14.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) play first (d) make the poster
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
16. 16.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 36 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
25. 25.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:30 PM
26. 26.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:50 PM
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to start late
31. 31.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.📅 Your science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
37. 37.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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