Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 390 · 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 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 4:50 PM
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) give up
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
9. 9.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:20 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 5:55 PM
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) starting early
16. 16.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.📋 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
22. 22.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
24. 24.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 5:50 PM
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 20 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
29. 29.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
31. 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 5:05 PM
34. 34.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 15 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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