Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 802 · 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) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
2. 2.📅 Your school play 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?
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
6. 6.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 36 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
13. 13.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
14. 14.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🗓️ 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
18. 18.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
21. 21.⏳ 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
22. 22.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 21 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) no task list
25. 25.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:20 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 3:30 PM
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 5:15 PM
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
36. 36.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 4:50 PM
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
39. 39.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 6:35 PM
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) hard part first

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