Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 185 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
4. 4.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) this week (d) after it is due
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
9. 9.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:15 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 5:35 PM
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) for surprises
19. 19.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) neither
20. 20.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 6:35 PM (d) 6:20 PM
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
33. 33.📅 Your science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 4 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline

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