Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

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

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