Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 447 · 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 of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
5. 5.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
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) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
11. 11.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
12. 12.⏳ 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
13. 13.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
16. 16.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:45 PM
17. 17.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 6:15 PM
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
22. 22.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 9 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
27. 27.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.📅 Your school play is due in 7 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 5:10 PM
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 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?
33. 33.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:15 PM
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early

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