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Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 125 · 40 questions
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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.

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

Answer key

  1. good planning
  2. doing only easy bits
  3. this week
  4. poor planning
  5. checking progress weekly
  6. 6
  7. listing tasks first
  8. no task list
  9. good planning
  10. one huge deadline
  11. poor planning
  12. 5:15 PM
  13. False
  14. good planning
  15. False
  16. poor planning
  17. no spare time
  18. a date for one step
  19. guessing how long
  20. no spare time
  21. 5
  22. guessing how long
  23. 9
  24. study for the test
  25. starting early
  26. no task list
  27. False
  28. one huge deadline
  29. False
  30. 5:50 PM
  31. False
  32. forgetting the due date
  33. good planning
  34. True
  35. 6
  36. poor planning
  37. True
  38. good planning
  39. False
  40. False

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