Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 805 · 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 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:25 PM (b) 4:15 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 3:35 PM
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) forgetting the due date
4. 4.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a holiday (b) a late fine (c) the final due date (d) a date for one step
5. 5.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:50 PM (b) 5:05 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 4:15 PM
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 12 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
7. 7.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is good project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no spare time (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:45 PM (b) 4:40 PM (c) 5:25 PM (d) 5:10 PM
10. 10.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) guessing how long
14. 14.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
16. 16.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) no task list (c) hard part first (d) starting early
21. 21.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) listing tasks first
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:20 PM (b) 5:55 PM (c) 6:35 PM
25. 25.📅 Your science model is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) starting early (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
29. 29.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) there is no need
33. 33.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) listing tasks first (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) do it all at once
38. 38.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) using a simple timetable
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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