Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 449 · 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) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a holiday
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
8. 8.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.📅 Your art display is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
14. 14.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 15 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) forgetting the due date
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) neither (d) study for the test
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 4:15 PM
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) in the third week
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 6:05 PM
25. 25.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
30. 30.🧩 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
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) starting early
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
35. 35.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 42 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
40. 40.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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