Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 46 · 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 poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
2. 2.⏳ 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
3. 3.📅 Your art display 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?
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
7. 7.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
8. 8.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) neither (d) make the poster
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
11. 11.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:50 PM
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) listing tasks first (d) forgetting the due date
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) starting early
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:15 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 3:45 PM (d) 4:00 PM
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
34. 34.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly

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