Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 450 · 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: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:20 PM
5. 5.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no spare time
11. 11.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 5:15 PM
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) study for the test
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) doing only easy bits
19. 19.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
25. 25.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
26. 26.🗓️ 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
27. 27.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:25 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 4:20 PM
28. 28.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 10 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
32. 32.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
33. 33.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:55 PM (b) 6:05 PM (c) 6:40 PM
40. 40.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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