Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 527 · 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 early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
8. 8.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 16 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
24. 24.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) neither (d) study for the test
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
26. 26.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
31. 31.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
33. 33.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) wait for help
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
38. 38.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) hard part first

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