Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 513 · 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.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) in the third week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) starting early
3. 3.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
6. 6.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
8. 8.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
11. 11.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
15. 15.📋 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
16. 16.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) using a simple timetable
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting early
21. 21.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
23. 23.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to start late
24. 24.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
25. 25.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:25 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:55 PM
27. 27.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) checking progress weekly
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
35. 35.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) checking progress weekly

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