Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 136 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
2. 2.📅 Your science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) using a simple timetable
5. 5.🗓️ 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
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) guessing how long
8. 8.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 14 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
11. 11.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) doing only easy bits
13. 13.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
17. 17.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) play first
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
26. 26.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) do it all at once
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 10 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long

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