Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 156 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
3. 3.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) starting early
6. 6.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 6:15 PM
13. 13.📅 Your science model is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
19. 19.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
22. 22.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
26. 26.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
30. 30.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
34. 34.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:25 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:00 PM
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 42 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
39. 39.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) the night before
40. 40.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?

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