Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 774 · 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.⏳ 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
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
3. 3.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) after it is due
4. 4.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) no task list
7. 7.⏰ You start at 3:45 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:30 PM
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting on the last day
9. 9.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
18. 18.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 3:50 PM (c) 3:45 PM (d) 4:20 PM
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
21. 21.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) hard part first (d) starting early
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) starting early
29. 29.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) one huge deadline (c) starting early (d) guessing how long
33. 33.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
35. 35.📋 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) neither (d) play first
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 54 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
37. 37.📅 Your class magazine 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?
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 36 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?

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