Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 840 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) using a simple timetable (d) guessing how long
5. 5.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 21 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
10. 10.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
11. 11.📅 Your art display is due in 8 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
13. 13.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) give up (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) listing tasks first (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
16. 16.📅 Your science model is due in 11 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) checking progress weekly (d) keeping spare days
19. 19.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:05 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 4:40 PM
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
22. 22.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
24. 24.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) ignoring the timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) no spare time
28. 28.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: “keeping spare days” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: “starting early” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) neither (c) make the poster (d) play first
33. 33.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) listing tasks first (d) checking progress weekly
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 30 thank-you cards in 5 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
37. 37.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:00 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 3:55 PM
38. 38.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
40. 40.✂️ Your team must make 4 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?

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