Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 519 · 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: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
3. 3.🧩 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
4. 4.✂️ Your team must make 42 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
7. 7.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
12. 12.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) hard part first
15. 15.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) there is no need
16. 16.📋 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
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
18. 18.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
21. 21.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
22. 22.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
24. 24.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 6:10 PM
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
30. 30.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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