Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 481 · 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.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 3:55 PM
2. 2.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
9. 9.🧩 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
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
11. 11.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
13. 13.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
15. 15.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) neither
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
23. 23.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
24. 24.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:20 PM
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
27. 27.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 18 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
29. 29.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) the night before
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
36. 36.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
38. 38.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
40. 40.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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