Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 168 · 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 science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) the night before (d) this week
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) forgetting the due date
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) forgetting the due date (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
8. 8.📅 Your history chart is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
11. 11.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:35 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:25 PM
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) starting early
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
17. 17.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
19. 19.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
22. 22.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
24. 24.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) no task list
28. 28.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
40. 40.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first

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