Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 640 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
6. 6.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) using a simple timetable
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) to start late
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) no task list
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
20. 20.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 4 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 40 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
24. 24.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:10 PM (d) 4:40 PM
27. 27.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
29. 29.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:40 PM
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
34. 34.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
37. 37.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?

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