Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 355 · 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: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
3. 3.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 5:10 PM
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) do it all at once
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
11. 11.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.📅 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?
16. 16.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) neither
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
18. 18.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 5:10 PM
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 8 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) to start late
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
25. 25.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) forgetting the due date
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) forgetting the due date (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
36. 36.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) this week
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable

Free leadership lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/leadership-skills-for-students