Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 54 · 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) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) checking progress weekly
4. 4.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 48 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
9. 9.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 6:50 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 7:05 PM
24. 24.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) listing tasks first (c) checking progress weekly (d) forgetting the due date
29. 29.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
38. 38.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 4:05 PM
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 25 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?

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