Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 19 · 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: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:40 PM
3. 3.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.🗓️ 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
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
12. 12.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) to rest only
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 40 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) no task list
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
28. 28.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) keeping spare days
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 3:20 PM (d) 4:00 PM
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
37. 37.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.📅 Your science model is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) using a simple timetable

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