Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 620 · 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: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
10. 10.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) make the poster
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) give up (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
13. 13.✂️ Your team must make 54 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 12 bookmarks in 3 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
15. 15.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) starting early
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
22. 22.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 6:05 PM
23. 23.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 28 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
26. 26.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 3:25 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 4:20 PM
29. 29.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 4:20 PM
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
34. 34.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 3:55 PM (d) 4:35 PM
35. 35.📅 Your school play is due in 14 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
38. 38.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) starting early

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