Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 685 · 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: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
3. 3.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 5:30 PM (d) 4:55 PM
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Your history chart is due in 8 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
10. 10.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) neither (d) make the poster
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
12. 12.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) keeping spare days (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
16. 16.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) using a simple timetable
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) hard part first
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 42 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
26. 26.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) there is no need (d) to start late
27. 27.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) using a simple timetable
30. 30.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) keeping spare days (d) forgetting the due date
32. 32.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 4:55 PM (c) 5:35 PM
33. 33.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
36. 36.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 27 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting early (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days

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