Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

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

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