Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 496 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
11. 11.✂️ Your team must make 8 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
14. 14.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
18. 18.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 5:35 PM
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 10 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 28 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
22. 22.⏳ 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
23. 23.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
25. 25.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
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: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
35. 35.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
39. 39.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early

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