Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 874 · 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.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
3. 3.📅 Your art display is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) checking progress weekly (c) guessing how long (d) keeping spare days
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.True or false: “no task list” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) using a simple timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
8. 8.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) setting mini-deadlines
10. 10.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) play first (b) study for the test (c) make the poster (d) neither
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) forgetting the due date
13. 13.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) one huge deadline
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) ignoring the timetable
18. 18.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) break it into steps (b) wait for help (c) do it all at once (d) give up
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
20. 20.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 8 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
25. 25.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:20 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 4:05 PM (d) 3:50 PM
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) listing tasks first
27. 27.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
28. 28.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) one huge deadline (c) hard part first (d) listing tasks first
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
30. 30.🗓️ 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
31. 31.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 30 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:30 PM (b) 4:25 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:40 PM
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) keeping spare days (c) starting early (d) breaking work into steps
33. 33.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.✂️ Your team must make 48 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
35. 35.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
38. 38.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) listing tasks first (c) keeping spare days (d) no spare time
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines

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