Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 682 · 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.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
2. 2.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
5. 5.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
7. 7.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 6:50 PM (c) 6:35 PM
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) ignoring the timetable
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 5:25 PM (d) 5:40 PM
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
11. 11.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:50 PM
12. 12.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
14. 14.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) play first
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) guessing how long
22. 22.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:20 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:10 PM
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) breaking work into steps
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.🧩 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
30. 30.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) starting early (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
32. 32.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
36. 36.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) the night before
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 6 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
38. 38.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) keeping spare days
39. 39.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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