Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 412 · 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.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:40 PM
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
9. 9.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
13. 13.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) no task list
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
21. 21.🧩 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
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 15 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) forgetting the due date
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) no spare time
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
35. 35.📅 Your class magazine is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 25 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) starting on the last day (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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