Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 22 · 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 poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
3. 3.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) hard part first
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
9. 9.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) do it all at once (c) wait for help (d) give up
10. 10.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
13. 13.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) play first (d) study for the test
14. 14.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:30 PM (c) 6:50 PM (d) 7:05 PM
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 4:20 PM
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
29. 29.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 4:50 PM
33. 33.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:45 PM (b) 7:00 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:05 PM
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 30 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 24 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines

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