Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 259 · 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.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
5. 5.🧩 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
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
8. 8.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 48 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
13. 13.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no spare time (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
16. 16.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) forgetting the due date
18. 18.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 25 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
28. 28.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 3:45 PM
34. 34.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
36. 36.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.📅 Your class magazine is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time

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