Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 430 · 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.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
4. 4.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
5. 5.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
11. 11.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) starting early
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
22. 22.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 4:35 PM
23. 23.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
24. 24.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
25. 25.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) no task list
32. 32.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) play first
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) no task list
35. 35.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 36 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first

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