Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 521 · 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 team must make 30 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) neither
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
9. 9.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 3:35 PM (d) 3:30 PM
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 24 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 28 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) one huge deadline
32. 32.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.⏳ 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
34. 34.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) wait for help
35. 35.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 4:45 PM
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
39. 39.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:30 PM
40. 40.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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