Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

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

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