Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 579 · 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.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
3. 3.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) guessing how long
7. 7.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.✂️ Your team must make 28 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
9. 9.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 5:30 PM
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) forgetting the due date
14. 14.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) no spare time
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) this week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) in the third week
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
26. 26.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) neither
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
29. 29.📅 Your art display is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
30. 30.📅 Your science model is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
32. 32.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:35 PM (d) 6:20 PM
36. 36.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.📅 Your science model is due in 16 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:15 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 3:50 PM (d) 4:30 PM
40. 40.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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