Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 279 · 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.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 5:25 PM
2. 2.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) starting early
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) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
8. 8.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 4 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
17. 17.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
21. 21.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
25. 25.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
26. 26.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.✂️ Your team must make 16 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no spare time (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) breaking work into steps (d) hard part first
37. 37.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 5:00 PM

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