Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 257 · 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.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 14 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
3. 3.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) to start late
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
12. 12.📅 Your class magazine is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
14. 14.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
20. 20.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 3:50 PM
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 10 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
27. 27.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
30. 30.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) neither
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) forgetting the due date
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 6:15 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 6:00 PM
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
38. 38.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 21 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?

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