Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 828 · 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) for surprises (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) to rest only
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:20 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 3:30 PM (d) 3:50 PM
4. 4.✂️ Your team must make 30 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a late fine (c) a holiday (d) the final due date
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
8. 8.📅 Your science model is due in 12 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 54 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) one huge deadline (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) breaking work into steps (c) ignoring the timetable (d) no task list
13. 13.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) play first (d) study for the test
14. 14.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) using a simple timetable (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
16. 16.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🗓️ 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
18. 18.📅 Your art display is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 28 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) breaking work into steps (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
21. 21.📅 Your science model 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?
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 16 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) setting mini-deadlines
26. 26.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) give up (d) break it into steps
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no spare time (c) ignoring the timetable (d) forgetting the due date
28. 28.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) starting early
31. 31.📅 Your science model is due in 6 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 20 paper bags in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) starting early (d) no task list
35. 35.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:05 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 4:20 PM
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 24 name badges in 3 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) no spare time
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) hard part first (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) forgetting the due date (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day

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