Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 250 · 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.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
3. 3.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) one huge deadline (d) breaking work into steps
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
10. 10.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
19. 19.🧩 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
20. 20.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 16 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
24. 24.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
28. 28.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
29. 29.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
30. 30.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.📅 Your class magazine is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.📅 Your class magazine 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?
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:00 PM
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
37. 37.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
38. 38.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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