Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 273 · 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: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
3. 3.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) using a simple timetable
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) starting early
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
13. 13.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 27 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 32 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 6:35 PM
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
37. 37.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) neither (d) study for the test
38. 38.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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