Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 609 · 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 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 5:10 PM
2. 2.⏳ 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
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting early (d) listing tasks first
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) keeping spare days
9. 9.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
14. 14.📋 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
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 8 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
21. 21.📅 Your history chart is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
23. 23.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) the final due date
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
25. 25.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 4:10 PM (c) 3:15 PM (d) 3:40 PM
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) ignoring the timetable
28. 28.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) the night before
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) no spare time
30. 30.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) break it into steps
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) breaking work into steps (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:35 PM (b) 3:15 PM (c) 3:20 PM (d) 3:50 PM
38. 38.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 6:55 PM (c) 7:10 PM (d) 6:15 PM
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting on the last day (d) hard part first
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days

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