Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 427 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
5. 5.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
8. 8.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
12. 12.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 6:25 PM (c) 6:55 PM (d) 7:10 PM
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
19. 19.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) neither
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 27 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.🗓️ 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
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
26. 26.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
30. 30.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) no spare time (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
39. 39.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:50 PM
40. 40.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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