Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 775 · 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) starting early (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
5. 5.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) the final due date
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
7. 7.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
8. 8.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Your science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
17. 17.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:10 PM
22. 22.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
24. 24.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
31. 31.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?

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