Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 7 · 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: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
3. 3.🗓️ 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
4. 4.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) give up
5. 5.📅 Your art display is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
6. 6.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
9. 9.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 16 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) play first
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
24. 24.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) guessing how long
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 5:00 PM (d) 5:15 PM
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
33. 33.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 30 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) using a simple timetable
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
37. 37.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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