Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 569 · 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.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
7. 7.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:00 PM
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
12. 12.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to start late
13. 13.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:40 PM (c) 6:25 PM
14. 14.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
20. 20.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
22. 22.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📅 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?
25. 25.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a late fine
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:55 PM
32. 32.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 4 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
34. 34.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due

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