Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 229 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) in the third week
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 6:10 PM (d) 6:25 PM
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 16 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
13. 13.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
16. 16.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
19. 19.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📋 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
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 8 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) ignoring the timetable
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 35 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
30. 30.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
36. 36.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
38. 38.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 42 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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