Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 622 · 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.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.⏳ 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
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) forgetting the due date (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
6. 6.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
9. 9.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
14. 14.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
17. 17.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
18. 18.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:20 PM
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
20. 20.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) no task list
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 6:25 PM
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
26. 26.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 3:25 PM (d) 3:55 PM
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 32 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
29. 29.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
32. 32.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 4:20 PM
33. 33.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
35. 35.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
40. 40.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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