Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 284 · 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) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:40 PM
7. 7.🧩 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
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
9. 9.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting early (d) no spare time
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) for surprises
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 10 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
20. 20.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a holiday
23. 23.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
25. 25.📅 Your history chart is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.📅 Your science model is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 5:10 PM
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
33. 33.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 6:00 PM
36. 36.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
39. 39.🗓️ 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
40. 40.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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