Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 810 · 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.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.✂️ Your team must make 8 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
3. 3.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) give up
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) setting mini-deadlines
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
7. 7.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no spare time
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) a date for one step
11. 11.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) after it is due (c) the night before (d) this week
12. 12.✂️ Your team must make 16 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
13. 13.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) starting on the last day
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) listing tasks first (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) forgetting the due date
18. 18.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
22. 22.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) no task list
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) no task list (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 2 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
28. 28.✂️ Your team must make 45 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) no spare time (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) using a simple timetable (d) listing tasks first
31. 31.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) keeping spare days (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
32. 32.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
33. 33.📋 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) play first (d) neither
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) no spare time
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
37. 37.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
38. 38.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) ignoring the timetable

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