Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 500 · 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) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) give up
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
4. 4.🗓️ 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
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 8 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
9. 9.⏰ 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
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.⏳ 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
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
19. 19.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:40 PM
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 5 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
26. 26.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📋 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
30. 30.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) starting early
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
33. 33.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 4:50 PM
36. 36.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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