Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 549 · 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: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Your art display is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) in the third week
9. 9.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) guessing how long
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.📅 Your school play is due in 14 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
18. 18.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 3:25 PM (c) 4:05 PM
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
21. 21.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
23. 23.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:05 PM
25. 25.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:10 PM
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
27. 27.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.📅 Your school play is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
37. 37.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
40. 40.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) study for the test

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