Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 448 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) this week
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 15 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
15. 15.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
17. 17.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a holiday (d) a late fine
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 3:40 PM (d) 4:15 PM
21. 21.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
26. 26.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) starting early
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 6:30 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:55 PM
36. 36.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 24 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
38. 38.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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