Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 467 · 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.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) do it all at once
11. 11.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
16. 16.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
17. 17.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 7:15 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 7:00 PM
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 40 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) no task list
23. 23.📋 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
24. 24.📅 Your history chart is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
27. 27.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) no task list
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) checking progress weekly
38. 38.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 5:45 PM
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
40. 40.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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