Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 497 · 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: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
3. 3.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
6. 6.📅 Your science model is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) the night before
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
9. 9.📅 Your art display is due in 16 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 4:35 PM
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 30 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) wait for help
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) starting early
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.📅 Your history chart is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
28. 28.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:25 PM
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
34. 34.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
35. 35.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 45 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no spare time
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 24 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable

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