Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 238 · 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.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) study for the test
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) this week
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
7. 7.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no spare time (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
12. 12.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:35 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:55 PM
13. 13.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
18. 18.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 25 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 32 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
35. 35.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 5:40 PM
37. 37.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no spare time
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 4:50 PM

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