Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 8 · 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 of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) play first (d) make the poster
5. 5.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 5:40 PM
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
20. 20.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) setting mini-deadlines
22. 22.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
23. 23.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
28. 28.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.📅 Your science model is due in 15 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 4:45 PM
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.⏳ 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
40. 40.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?

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