Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 170 · 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.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
2. 2.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 5:25 PM
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.🗓️ 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
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 6 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
8. 8.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:05 PM
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) starting early
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) doing only easy bits
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 30 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
23. 23.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 5:50 PM
24. 24.📅 Your art display is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
29. 29.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
40. 40.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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