Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 317 · 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 maths exhibit is due in 16 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
3. 3.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) no spare time
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 9 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
12. 12.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) checking progress weekly
15. 15.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
16. 16.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 5:10 PM
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable
22. 22.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) using a simple timetable
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 3 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
37. 37.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 4:10 PM
40. 40.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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