Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 470 · 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) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 16 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
8. 8.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
9. 9.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 21 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
26. 26.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 20 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.✂️ Your team must make 15 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.📅 Your class magazine is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps

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