Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 173 · 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.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) hard part first
5. 5.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) listing tasks first
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
11. 11.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
13. 13.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
15. 15.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) neither
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
21. 21.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
34. 34.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 3:40 PM
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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