Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 712 · 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.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.🗓️ 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
5. 5.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:20 PM (b) 6:35 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 5:50 PM
6. 6.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) one huge deadline (c) guessing how long (d) forgetting the due date
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
9. 9.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 8 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📅 Your science model is due in 7 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) starting early (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) breaking work into steps (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
16. 16.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 6 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
19. 19.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) play first
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) setting mini-deadlines
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
22. 22.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:50 PM (d) 4:20 PM
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
28. 28.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
33. 33.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
35. 35.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) listing tasks first
40. 40.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:25 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 5:35 PM

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