Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 289 · 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: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:20 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 3:55 PM
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 42 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 6 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
26. 26.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
28. 28.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) no task list
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
33. 33.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 4:50 PM
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
35. 35.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) wait for help
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 20 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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