Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 557 · 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: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.📋 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
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.📅 Your school play is due in 15 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
9. 9.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.📅 Your class magazine is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.📅 Your class magazine is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) the final due date
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 4 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) no spare time
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:45 PM
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.📅 Your class magazine is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?

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