Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 644 · 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: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
3. 3.⏳ 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
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: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:45 PM (c) 6:30 PM (d) 5:50 PM
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) starting early
10. 10.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:40 PM (b) 5:35 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 6:30 PM
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
13. 13.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
17. 17.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 30 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
20. 20.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
21. 21.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
24. 24.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) the night before
25. 25.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
35. 35.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) using a simple timetable
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) no task list
38. 38.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) starting early

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