Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 240 · 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 big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
4. 4.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
12. 12.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) to start late
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) no spare time
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
23. 23.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 42 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
26. 26.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 5:55 PM
27. 27.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
30. 30.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) play first (d) make the poster
31. 31.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 32 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
34. 34.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
36. 36.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
39. 39.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits

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