Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 84 · 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) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
2. 2.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:35 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 6:50 PM
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a late fine
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
18. 18.📋 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
19. 19.📅 Your school play is due in 6 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 4:35 PM
32. 32.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) to start late
34. 34.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 6:30 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 6:15 PM
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 6:20 PM
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:35 PM
38. 38.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list

Free leadership lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/leadership-skills-for-students