Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 531 · 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 science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) give up (d) break it into steps
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 45 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
11. 11.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 3:20 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 3:30 PM
12. 12.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 12 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) no spare time
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
20. 20.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
22. 22.📅 Your science model is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 36 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
27. 27.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 5:35 PM
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
33. 33.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
36. 36.📅 Your class magazine is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
39. 39.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps

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