Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 343 · 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) using a simple timetable (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
2. 2.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) no task list
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 40 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
15. 15.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
21. 21.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 5:10 PM (d) 5:55 PM
23. 23.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:55 PM
24. 24.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
27. 27.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) the night before
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 16 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
35. 35.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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