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Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 414 · 40 questions
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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. 1.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
  3. 3.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
  5. 5.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
  7. 7.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
  9. 9.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 42 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
  11. 11.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
  12. 12.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
  13. 13.📅 Your history chart is due in 15 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
  15. 15.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
  17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  18. 18.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
  19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
  20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  21. 21.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
  24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  27. 27.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
  29. 29.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
  31. 31.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting early (d) no spare time
  34. 34.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) there is no need
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
  36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:50 PM
  39. 39.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable

Answer key

  1. False
  2. keeping spare days
  3. True
  4. break it into steps
  5. False
  6. no task list
  7. True
  8. a date for one step
  9. True
  10. 7
  11. 3
  12. 5
  13. 4
  14. forgetting the due date
  15. True
  16. 3
  17. poor planning
  18. this week
  19. using a simple timetable
  20. good planning
  21. True
  22. keeping spare days
  23. setting mini-deadlines
  24. poor planning
  25. good planning
  26. poor planning
  27. True
  28. study for the test
  29. False
  30. checking progress weekly
  31. False
  32. True
  33. no spare time
  34. for surprises
  35. starting on the last day
  36. good planning
  37. poor planning
  38. 6:15 PM
  39. True
  40. ignoring the timetable

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