Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 831 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) wait for help
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 4:15 PM
5. 5.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
12. 12.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) listing tasks first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) doing only easy bits
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) no task list
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
26. 26.📋 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
27. 27.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
30. 30.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
34. 34.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 4:45 PM
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:50 PM
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 45 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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