Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 439 · 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: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
9. 9.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
11. 11.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
14. 14.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 28 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
18. 18.🧩 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
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
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.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
24. 24.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
25. 25.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 5:20 PM
29. 29.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) hard part first
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 14 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
35. 35.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
38. 38.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long

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