Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 763 · 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) forgetting the due date (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) ignoring the timetable
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
3. 3.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.📅 Your history chart is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) starting early
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 40 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 8 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
10. 10.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
16. 16.✂️ Your team must make 16 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
19. 19.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting early (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
25. 25.📅 Your school play is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) guessing how long
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
28. 28.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) do it all at once
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) guessing how long
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) starting on the last day (d) using a simple timetable
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
32. 32.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.📅 Your class magazine is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
37. 37.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
39. 39.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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