Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 203 · 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: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🗓️ 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
3. 3.📅 Your history chart is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
5. 5.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
9. 9.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 3:30 PM (d) 4:15 PM
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) make the poster
13. 13.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 16 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long
17. 17.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 27 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
21. 21.🧩 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
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 16 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
30. 30.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
33. 33.📅 Your school play is due in 14 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 4:55 PM
35. 35.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 48 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
37. 37.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) guessing how long

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