Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 561 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
10. 10.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
17. 17.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) keeping spare days
19. 19.📅 Your school play 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?
20. 20.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:35 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:20 PM (d) 6:35 PM
21. 21.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 6:40 PM (d) 6:25 PM
25. 25.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
26. 26.📅 Your eco-club poster 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?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
30. 30.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 5:20 PM
32. 32.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
33. 33.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:30 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 5:10 PM
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.📅 Your school play is due in 14 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) starting early
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long

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