Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 389 · 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.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) neither
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
3. 3.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
6. 6.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
9. 9.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 3:35 PM
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
12. 12.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) no spare time
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
17. 17.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:55 PM
20. 20.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
21. 21.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) a late fine
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
28. 28.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no spare time
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 5:35 PM
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?

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