Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 226 · 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.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:20 PM
5. 5.📅 Your class magazine is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 21 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) hard part first
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
23. 23.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:15 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 6:30 PM
25. 25.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
29. 29.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to start late
30. 30.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 4:00 PM (c) 4:30 PM
34. 34.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 20 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
36. 36.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) hard part first
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time

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