Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 673 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
4. 4.✂️ Your team must make 35 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) doing only easy bits
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting early (c) no spare time (d) no task list
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
10. 10.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:10 PM
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
14. 14.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
17. 17.⏳ 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
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) play first (d) study for the test
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) doing only easy bits (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
21. 21.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
23. 23.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
25. 25.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:55 PM (d) 4:25 PM
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 42 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) breaking work into steps
28. 28.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
29. 29.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 4:30 PM
30. 30.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 6:00 PM
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) hard part first
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
39. 39.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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