Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 205 · 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.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) this week
2. 2.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
8. 8.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 4:20 PM
9. 9.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
11. 11.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
16. 16.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) to start late
17. 17.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
19. 19.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
21. 21.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
26. 26.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 4:35 PM
28. 28.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📅 Your school play is due in 14 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 12 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:45 PM
36. 36.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) ignoring the timetable

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