Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 562 · 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.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:40 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 3:45 PM
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) checking progress weekly
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
15. 15.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
17. 17.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
22. 22.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 6:00 PM
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 18 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
25. 25.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a holiday
26. 26.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
30. 30.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
32. 32.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Your class magazine is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) make the poster (c) neither (d) play first
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 4:35 PM
36. 36.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 4:30 PM
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
38. 38.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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