Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 533 · 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.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:40 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 6:55 PM (d) 6:20 PM
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:05 PM
7. 7.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 6:20 PM
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
9. 9.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:10 PM (d) 6:40 PM
10. 10.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🗓️ 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
12. 12.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
14. 14.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
16. 16.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
18. 18.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
22. 22.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
24. 24.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 4:25 PM
28. 28.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:20 PM
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
34. 34.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) play first
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 4:05 PM
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines

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