Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 628 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 7:05 PM (c) 7:20 PM
3. 3.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) hard part first (c) guessing how long (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
10. 10.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) one huge deadline (d) using a simple timetable
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) hard part first
14. 14.🧩 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
15. 15.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
17. 17.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
20. 20.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 4:35 PM (c) 4:15 PM (d) 5:05 PM
21. 21.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 48 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
23. 23.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a date for one step (d) a late fine
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 6:25 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 6:10 PM
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
28. 28.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
35. 35.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 16 bookmarks in 2 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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