Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 216 · 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.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 6:35 PM (d) 6:20 PM
2. 2.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
11. 11.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) for surprises
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
17. 17.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:20 PM
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) no task list
21. 21.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:05 PM
24. 24.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) ignoring the timetable
27. 27.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) neither
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
30. 30.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
31. 31.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) starting early
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
35. 35.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 5:10 PM
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) doing only easy bits
40. 40.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) give up

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