Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 498 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
4. 4.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) guessing how long
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 32 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
7. 7.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
13. 13.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:00 PM (c) 3:20 PM (d) 4:15 PM
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) guessing how long
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 25 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
24. 24.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:25 PM (c) 5:40 PM (d) 4:50 PM
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 14 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 4:10 PM
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
33. 33.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
36. 36.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) keeping spare days
40. 40.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need

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