Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 766 · 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.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
2. 2.⏳ 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
3. 3.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 5:10 PM
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
5. 5.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.📅 Your class magazine is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) one huge deadline
10. 10.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable
12. 12.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
14. 14.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 4:55 PM
15. 15.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
17. 17.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
19. 19.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 5:45 PM
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
28. 28.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.📅 Your art display 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?
31. 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
32. 32.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
36. 36.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 21 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
40. 40.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help

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