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Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 787 · 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 of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
  2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
  4. 4.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) checking progress weekly (c) ignoring the timetable (d) keeping spare days
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) using a simple timetable
  8. 8.⏳ 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
  9. 9.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) breaking work into steps (d) listing tasks first
  13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) no task list (d) breaking work into steps
  14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
  15. 15.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
  17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  18. 18.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
  19. 19.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:55 PM (b) 6:30 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 5:35 PM
  20. 20.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a date for one step (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
  21. 21.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) breaking work into steps
  23. 23.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) give up
  24. 24.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
  25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  26. 26.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) this week (c) the night before (d) in the third week
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) doing only easy bits (c) checking progress weekly (d) no spare time
  28. 28.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.📅 Your history chart is due in 8 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
  30. 30.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
  32. 32.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:35 PM (b) 4:20 PM (c) 3:45 PM (d) 3:50 PM
  33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  34. 34.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
  35. 35.True or false: “no spare time” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) doing only easy bits
  38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
  39. 39.✂️ Your team must make 9 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
  40. 40.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. listing tasks first
  2. good planning
  3. 6
  4. False
  5. True
  6. ignoring the timetable
  7. no task list
  8. for surprises
  9. False
  10. False
  11. True
  12. doing only easy bits
  13. no task list
  14. doing only easy bits
  15. False
  16. using a simple timetable
  17. poor planning
  18. starting early
  19. 6:15 PM
  20. a date for one step
  21. False
  22. ignoring the timetable
  23. break it into steps
  24. 3
  25. good planning
  26. this week
  27. checking progress weekly
  28. False
  29. 1
  30. False
  31. poor planning
  32. 4:20 PM
  33. good planning
  34. 3
  35. True
  36. poor planning
  37. setting mini-deadlines
  38. poor planning
  39. 3
  40. False

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