Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 550 · 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.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
2. 2.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
3. 3.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:55 PM (b) 7:10 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:15 PM
4. 4.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 18 thank-you cards in 2 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
10. 10.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
11. 11.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) using a simple timetable (d) hard part first
14. 14.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) keeping spare days (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) neither (d) make the poster
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 30 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) guessing how long (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
30. 30.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
33. 33.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 6 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
37. 37.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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