Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 189 · 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: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.📅 Your class magazine is due in 16 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
9. 9.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
11. 11.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
13. 13.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.🧩 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
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) listing tasks first
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 21 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
21. 21.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
23. 23.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 21 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) no task list
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 25 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 24 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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