Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 280 · 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 of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
5. 5.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) study for the test
7. 7.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
12. 12.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
17. 17.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
21. 21.🧩 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
22. 22.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:50 PM
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
27. 27.📅 Your school play 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?
28. 28.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 5:25 PM
29. 29.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
33. 33.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
34. 34.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.✂️ Your team must make 25 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) listing tasks first (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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