Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 14 · 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 of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🗓️ 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
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no spare time (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
11. 11.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) no task list
19. 19.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
22. 22.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:10 PM (d) 5:55 PM
24. 24.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
27. 27.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 15 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
30. 30.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 5:20 PM
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
40. 40.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 5:35 PM

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