Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 52 · 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: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
4. 4.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a date for one step (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
14. 14.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 3:15 PM
15. 15.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
18. 18.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) there is no need (c) to start late (d) for surprises
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
21. 21.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:30 PM
22. 22.📋 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
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
24. 24.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) no task list
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) keeping spare days
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) ignoring the timetable (d) hard part first
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
34. 34.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 4:50 PM (c) 5:05 PM (d) 4:10 PM
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:35 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:20 PM
39. 39.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 4:15 PM

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