Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 892 · 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.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) play first
2. 2.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
4. 4.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
5. 5.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
11. 11.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
14. 14.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 54 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
19. 19.🧩 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
20. 20.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:10 PM
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) starting early
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 14 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 3:45 PM
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
40. 40.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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