Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 460 · 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) give up (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
2. 2.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.🗓️ 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
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) no spare time
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
7. 7.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
14. 14.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
20. 20.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 3:55 PM
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
26. 26.📅 Your school play is due in 16 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
29. 29.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor 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) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
36. 36.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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