Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 736 · 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: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
11. 11.📅 Your school play 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?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
14. 14.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
16. 16.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 5:45 PM
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
19. 19.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 3:30 PM
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
25. 25.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 6:10 PM
32. 32.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?

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