Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 218 · 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) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
3. 3.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🗓️ 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
5. 5.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
8. 8.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:25 PM
9. 9.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
13. 13.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
22. 22.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) there is no need
26. 26.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 36 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 4 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:45 PM
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 5:05 PM
40. 40.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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