Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 754 · 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.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) no spare time
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) do it all at once
3. 3.📅 Your science model is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) doing only easy bits
7. 7.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📅 Your science model is due in 15 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 4:30 PM
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) guessing how long
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
12. 12.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.✂️ Your team must make 40 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
14. 14.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.📅 Your history chart is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) in the third week
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) guessing how long (d) no spare time
25. 25.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
27. 27.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting on the last day
31. 31.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) starting on the last day (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) checking progress weekly
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) checking progress weekly (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 11 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 10 name badges in 5 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?

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