Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 274 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) checking progress weekly (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
4. 4.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 36 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
6. 6.🗓️ 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
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) keeping spare days (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
16. 16.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) play first (d) study for the test
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.⏳ 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
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 48 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
24. 24.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 3:50 PM
27. 27.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) forgetting the due date (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 6:25 PM (c) 5:25 PM (d) 6:10 PM
39. 39.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:20 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:35 PM

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