Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 675 · 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) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
3. 3.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) play first
4. 4.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
7. 7.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
8. 8.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
12. 12.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 20 name badges in 4 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
18. 18.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting on the last day
20. 20.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) forgetting the due date (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
30. 30.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:10 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 4:30 PM
31. 31.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 4:50 PM
32. 32.📅 Your school play is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) doing only easy bits
35. 35.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) to start late
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) ignoring the timetable (d) doing only easy bits
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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