Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 511 · 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: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
3. 3.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.📅 Your science model 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?
6. 6.🗓️ 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
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
9. 9.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
15. 15.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) for surprises
17. 17.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
26. 26.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
29. 29.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 4:45 PM
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) starting early
34. 34.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 4 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 14 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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