Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 927 · 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 poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
2. 2.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) play first
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) forgetting the due date (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
6. 6.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:40 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 6:25 PM
7. 7.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
10. 10.⏳ 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
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
13. 13.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 36 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
18. 18.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) no spare time (d) guessing how long
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
26. 26.📅 Your class magazine is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 5:10 PM
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
36. 36.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 4:00 PM
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 3:25 PM
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) no spare time
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 15 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?

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