Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 445 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
4. 4.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 40 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
6. 6.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 4:55 PM
8. 8.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
9. 9.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
11. 11.✂️ Your team must make 42 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
12. 12.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) the night before
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
17. 17.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) to rest only
19. 19.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) neither
20. 20.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 5:20 PM
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.📅 Your science model is due in 15 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
26. 26.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 6:25 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 6:10 PM
27. 27.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 4:05 PM
38. 38.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 48 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?

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