Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 266 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
4. 4.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 6 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
7. 7.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 5:10 PM
8. 8.🧩 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
9. 9.📋 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
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) checking progress weekly
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
26. 26.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 30 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) the night before
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
33. 33.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 36 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
36. 36.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
40. 40.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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