Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 739 · 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: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) no task list
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting early (d) checking progress weekly
9. 9.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 9 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) checking progress weekly
13. 13.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
15. 15.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting early (d) no task list
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:40 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:20 PM
21. 21.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) give up
22. 22.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:10 PM (c) 6:45 PM (d) 6:30 PM
23. 23.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:40 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 5:40 PM (d) 6:25 PM
25. 25.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
28. 28.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) in the third week (d) this week
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) one huge deadline (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
30. 30.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:05 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:40 PM
31. 31.📅 Your history chart is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) neither
33. 33.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 15 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) keeping spare days
37. 37.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:25 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 4:50 PM
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no spare time (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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