Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 589 · 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) no task list (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
2. 2.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 4:45 PM (c) 3:55 PM (d) 4:30 PM
3. 3.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
5. 5.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
8. 8.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) forgetting the due date
11. 11.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
14. 14.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
16. 16.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
17. 17.📅 Your history chart is due in 16 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
18. 18.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a date for one step (c) a holiday (d) a late fine
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) hard part first
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) doing only easy bits (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) guessing how long
24. 24.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
26. 26.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 6:25 PM (d) 6:40 PM
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 6:50 PM
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) forgetting the due date
30. 30.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 10 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) breaking work into steps
35. 35.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 25 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?

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