Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 941 · 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.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) for surprises
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
6. 6.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 5:10 PM
8. 8.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.📋 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
10. 10.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
14. 14.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
19. 19.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 16 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) checking progress weekly
25. 25.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:55 PM (b) 7:10 PM (c) 6:10 PM (d) 6:15 PM
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
32. 32.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 4:50 PM
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list

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