Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 323 · 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: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
3. 3.📋 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
4. 4.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
6. 6.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 32 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
11. 11.🧩 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
12. 12.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:00 PM
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 4:40 PM
16. 16.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 5:40 PM
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 5:50 PM
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
21. 21.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 6 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
25. 25.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) starting early
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
28. 28.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 4:55 PM
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 4:40 PM
31. 31.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) the night before
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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