Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

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

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