Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 663 · 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 holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
2. 2.📅 Your science model is due in 14 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
5. 5.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
10. 10.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.📅 Your history chart 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?
18. 18.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 5:45 PM
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
20. 20.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) no spare time
24. 24.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) to rest only
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
26. 26.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) guessing how long (d) no spare time
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?

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