Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 374 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a holiday
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
12. 12.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) to start late
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
15. 15.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
24. 24.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) in the third week
25. 25.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
27. 27.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
30. 30.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
34. 34.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
36. 36.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days

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