Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 183 · 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: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) neither (d) make the poster
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting early (d) hard part first
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) this week
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 54 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
11. 11.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:15 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 3:25 PM (d) 3:40 PM
12. 12.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) listing tasks first
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 7 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 28 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 10 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
32. 32.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) wait for help
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
37. 37.📅 Your class magazine is due in 5 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 24 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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