Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 319 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 10 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time
12. 12.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 4:45 PM
17. 17.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 3:45 PM (d) 4:05 PM
18. 18.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
20. 20.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) using a simple timetable
23. 23.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
26. 26.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
29. 29.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 4:15 PM
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
32. 32.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.📅 Your history chart is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 4 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) this week
40. 40.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 6:45 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 6:10 PM

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