Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 237 · 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) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
7. 7.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 5:05 PM
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 3:25 PM
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
25. 25.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
29. 29.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 4 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
35. 35.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
36. 36.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:50 PM
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) play first

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