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Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 377 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
  2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
  4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
  5. 5.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 6:00 PM
  6. 6.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
  7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
  8. 8.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
  10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 21 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
  11. 11.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 5:50 PM
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
  13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  15. 15.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 48 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
  17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 6 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
  18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 54 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
  19. 19.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
  22. 22.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
  24. 24.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  26. 26.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
  27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
  28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) no task list
  29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 54 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) starting early
  32. 32.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) guessing how long
  35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  38. 38.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) starting early

Answer key

  1. breaking work into steps
  2. good planning
  3. ignoring the timetable
  4. ignoring the timetable
  5. 6:00 PM
  6. study for the test
  7. guessing how long
  8. for surprises
  9. one huge deadline
  10. 7
  11. 5:50 PM
  12. breaking work into steps
  13. good planning
  14. good planning
  15. False
  16. 8
  17. 2
  18. 9
  19. True
  20. False
  21. 5
  22. True
  23. this week
  24. True
  25. good planning
  26. a date for one step
  27. one huge deadline
  28. no task list
  29. 9
  30. keeping spare days
  31. starting early
  32. True
  33. True
  34. checking progress weekly
  35. good planning
  36. good planning
  37. poor planning
  38. False
  39. good planning
  40. starting on the last day

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