Temporal leadership, team processes, and project team task performance

•Temporal leadership considers the use and management of time as an explicit function of project leadership.•The two underlying facets of temporal leadership include temporal planning and temporal reminders, each critical at different project stages to accomplish the end of the project team task performance.•At project initiation, leader temporal planning works through the team transition processes to accomplish team task performance.•During project execution, leader temporal reminders facilitate team action processes.