Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 722 · 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.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) after it is due (d) the night before
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
4. 4.✂️ Your team must make 36 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) ignoring the timetable
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
8. 8.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 4 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
16. 16.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.⏳ 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
22. 22.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) guessing how long (c) starting early (d) doing only easy bits
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) neither (d) make the poster
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) breaking work into steps
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 27 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
32. 32.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 5:50 PM (c) 5:20 PM (d) 5:30 PM
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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