Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 120 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) give up
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
8. 8.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) make the poster
9. 9.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
16. 16.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:30 PM
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 12 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
22. 22.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 6:10 PM
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) guessing how long
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
31. 31.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
35. 35.📅 Your science model is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 6:20 PM
39. 39.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?

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