Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 784 · 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) to rest only (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 40 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:50 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 6:05 PM
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.✂️ Your team must make 6 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) no task list
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
14. 14.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:10 PM (b) 3:25 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 3:45 PM
17. 17.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:25 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 3:50 PM
18. 18.📅 Your class magazine is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.⏰ You start at 4:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:30 PM (c) 5:45 PM
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no task list (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 3:20 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:35 PM
24. 24.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) in the third week (c) after it is due (d) this week
25. 25.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) keeping spare days (d) ignoring the timetable
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) one huge deadline
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) setting mini-deadlines
31. 31.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:55 PM (b) 6:40 PM (c) 5:55 PM (d) 6:15 PM
34. 34.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) neither
35. 35.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
36. 36.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
37. 37.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False

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