Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 223 · 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.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
4. 4.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
10. 10.⏰ 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) 5:25 PM (c) 5:05 PM
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
21. 21.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
22. 22.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
24. 24.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) in the third week
27. 27.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 4:00 PM
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
37. 37.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly

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