Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 841 · 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: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) no task list
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) using a simple timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) guessing how long (d) listing tasks first
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🗓️ 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
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
11. 11.✂️ Your team must make 30 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
13. 13.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
14. 14.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) ignoring the timetable (d) using a simple timetable
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
18. 18.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 13 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 18 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) no task list (d) starting on the last day
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.✂️ Your team must make 8 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) using a simple timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) hard part first
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) one huge deadline
29. 29.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
31. 31.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.📅 Your history chart is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) forgetting the due date (c) guessing how long (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) doing only easy bits
36. 36.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) to start late (d) there is no need
37. 37.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:15 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 4:45 PM (d) 4:15 PM
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) breaking work into steps (d) forgetting the due date
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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