Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 359 · 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: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
4. 4.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
6. 6.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 8 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) using a simple timetable
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 54 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
19. 19.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
22. 22.📅 Your science model is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting early (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) doing only easy bits
25. 25.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
32. 32.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 10 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
35. 35.📅 Your science model is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 21 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting on the last day (d) guessing how long
39. 39.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:30 PM
40. 40.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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