Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 171 · 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.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
8. 8.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
11. 11.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
14. 14.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 5:40 PM
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Your history chart is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
21. 21.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 6:50 PM (d) 6:15 PM
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:20 PM
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
25. 25.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 10 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
36. 36.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 7:00 PM (b) 6:45 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 6:30 PM
39. 39.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:45 PM
40. 40.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?

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