Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 311 · 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: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
7. 7.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
10. 10.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
18. 18.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a holiday
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 21 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
21. 21.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 5:05 PM
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
24. 24.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
26. 26.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) make the poster
27. 27.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 3:55 PM
28. 28.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
31. 31.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
40. 40.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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