Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 352 · 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: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
6. 6.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
8. 8.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:20 PM
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) the final due date
11. 11.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:15 PM
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
13. 13.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 20 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 4:00 PM
26. 26.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) for surprises
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) guessing how long
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 12 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 4:35 PM (d) 4:05 PM
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long

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