Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 767 · 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.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:45 PM (b) 3:20 PM (c) 3:25 PM (d) 4:00 PM
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) using a simple timetable (d) keeping spare days
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) ignoring the timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
9. 9.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.✂️ Your team must make 30 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
11. 11.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.📋 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) play first (d) neither
13. 13.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.📅 Your class magazine is due in 9 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) this week (c) the night before (d) after it is due
18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) no task list
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) ignoring the timetable
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
21. 21.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) no task list
23. 23.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) for surprises (c) to rest only (d) there is no need
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no task list (c) using a simple timetable (d) breaking work into steps
25. 25.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) no task list (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting on the last day
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
33. 33.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:45 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 3:35 PM
36. 36.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.📅 Your science model is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) starting on the last day (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
40. 40.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?

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