Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 68 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) no task list
2. 2.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 3:40 PM
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:55 PM
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
9. 9.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) hard part first
11. 11.📋 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) play first (d) neither
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 3:45 PM
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
18. 18.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) ignoring the timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
25. 25.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
28. 28.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) no task list
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
35. 35.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first

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