Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 325 · 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.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:25 PM
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📋 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
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) guessing how long
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
15. 15.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:40 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 6:55 PM
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) no task list
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
25. 25.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 6 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
27. 27.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) starting early
36. 36.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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