Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 1 · 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.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
2. 2.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
5. 5.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
7. 7.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 6:50 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 6:35 PM
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
16. 16.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) checking progress weekly
18. 18.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
21. 21.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 54 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
23. 23.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
25. 25.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) this week (d) after it is due
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
33. 33.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
38. 38.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first

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