Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 45 · 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.📋 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
2. 2.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
8. 8.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) starting early
10. 10.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:15 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 3:20 PM (d) 3:35 PM
13. 13.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 7:05 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:50 PM
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
19. 19.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
21. 21.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
28. 28.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 30 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 3:55 PM
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) no task list
36. 36.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
40. 40.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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