Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 38 · 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) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
7. 7.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
8. 8.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.📅 Your science model is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
19. 19.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
25. 25.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:40 PM (d) 6:10 PM
26. 26.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 4:25 PM
28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) study for the test
29. 29.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:05 PM (d) 5:15 PM
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
33. 33.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 5:15 PM
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) listing tasks first
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) no task list

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