Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 252 · 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.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.📋 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
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
8. 8.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
10. 10.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
13. 13.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 12 bookmarks in 3 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
17. 17.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) to start late
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 48 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:05 PM
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 8 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
37. 37.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
39. 39.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 5:55 PM
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) forgetting the due date (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day

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