Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 536 · 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.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
4. 4.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
8. 8.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
13. 13.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
14. 14.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
18. 18.⏰ 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
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 18 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 4:30 PM
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
27. 27.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
29. 29.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 5:15 PM
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
33. 33.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:40 PM (d) 4:45 PM
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 5:40 PM
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long

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