Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 202 · 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: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 24 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
10. 10.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) neither
11. 11.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 5:15 PM
12. 12.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
13. 13.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
22. 22.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
26. 26.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
33. 33.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
35. 35.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
36. 36.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 6:00 PM
37. 37.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.📅 Your eco-club poster 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?
39. 39.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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