Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 324 · 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.🗓️ 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
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
5. 5.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
8. 8.📋 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
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 6 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
11. 11.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
16. 16.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 6 bookmarks in 3 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 5:10 PM
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
25. 25.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
26. 26.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 5:30 PM
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
31. 31.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:30 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 3:40 PM (d) 4:10 PM

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