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Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 773 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) hard part first
  2. 2.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
  3. 3.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) using a simple timetable (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
  7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
  9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
  11. 11.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 3:55 PM
  12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) hard part first
  13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no spare time (c) no task list (d) checking progress weekly
  16. 16.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  17. 17.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
  20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
  22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 28 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
  23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper bags in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
  25. 25.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) setting mini-deadlines
  27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) using a simple timetable (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting early
  28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
  30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) checking progress weekly (c) hard part first (d) keeping spare days
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
  32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  34. 34.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 4:20 PM
  36. 36.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) using a simple timetable
  39. 39.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) play first (d) study for the test
  40. 40.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. forgetting the due date
  2. breaking work into steps
  3. False
  4. True
  5. checking progress weekly
  6. doing only easy bits
  7. False
  8. breaking work into steps
  9. poor planning
  10. break it into steps
  11. 3:55 PM
  12. hard part first
  13. good planning
  14. poor planning
  15. checking progress weekly
  16. good planning
  17. True
  18. False
  19. a date for one step
  20. poor planning
  21. listing tasks first
  22. 7
  23. poor planning
  24. 6
  25. True
  26. no spare time
  27. ignoring the timetable
  28. poor planning
  29. one huge deadline
  30. no spare time
  31. hard part first
  32. good planning
  33. poor planning
  34. False
  35. 5:00 PM
  36. True
  37. good planning
  38. ignoring the timetable
  39. study for the test
  40. True

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