Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 186 · 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 start late (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
4. 4.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
10. 10.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) give up
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
13. 13.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) doing only easy bits
17. 17.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
21. 21.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
26. 26.🗓️ 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
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
31. 31.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:35 PM
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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