Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management
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.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
- 2.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) this week
- 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 5.📅 Your class magazine is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
- 7.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
- 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
- 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
- 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
- 12.📅 Your art display is due in 6 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
- 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 14.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
- 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) one huge deadline
- 17.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
- 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
- 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
- 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
- 21.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
- 23.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
- 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
- 26.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:25 PM (c) 3:40 PM (d) 4:05 PM
- 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
- 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
- 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
- 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
- 33.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 34.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
- 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) keeping spare days
- 36.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
- 38.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
- 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
- 40.📅 Your art display is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
Answer key
- good planning
- True
- this week
- poor planning
- 3
- setting mini-deadlines
- for surprises
- good planning
- starting on the last day
- listing tasks first
- break it into steps
- 1
- good planning
- 2
- poor planning
- one huge deadline
- True
- good planning
- one huge deadline
- poor planning
- True
- no task list
- a date for one step
- poor planning
- guessing how long
- 4:05 PM
- good planning
- no spare time
- checking progress weekly
- setting mini-deadlines
- hard part first
- checking progress weekly
- True
- 5
- keeping spare days
- False
- starting early
- 3
- False
- 2
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