Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 590 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
2. 2.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) no task list
5. 5.✂️ Your team must make 28 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 36 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting early (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.✂️ Your team must make 12 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) study for the test
16. 16.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 15 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
20. 20.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
25. 25.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
28. 28.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:45 PM (d) 6:30 PM
30. 30.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
36. 36.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:35 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 6:50 PM (d) 6:00 PM
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
38. 38.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) this week
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines

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