Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 400 · 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: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 18 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
4. 4.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 6:00 PM (d) 5:40 PM
5. 5.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
9. 9.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
12. 12.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to start late
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 10 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
23. 23.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 4:50 PM
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) checking progress weekly (d) no task list
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 5:15 PM
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
37. 37.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
39. 39.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time

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