Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 88 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
2. 2.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
3. 3.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 9 days. Research takes 1 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) do it all at once (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) wait for help
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) hard part first (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
6. 6.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) to rest only (c) there is no need (d) to start late
10. 10.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
12. 12.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) the night before (c) this week (d) in the third week
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
15. 15.✂️ Your team must make 15 thank-you cards in 3 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) checking progress weekly (d) setting mini-deadlines
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.📅 Your art display is due in 7 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
19. 19.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) one huge deadline (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting on the last day
20. 20.📅 Your science model 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?
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) starting on the last day (c) forgetting the due date (d) breaking work into steps
22. 22.⏰ You start at 4:15 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:55 PM (b) 4:30 PM (c) 4:40 PM (d) 5:10 PM
23. 23.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
25. 25.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 10 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) using a simple timetable
27. 27.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) the final due date (c) a late fine (d) a holiday
28. 28.📅 Your class magazine is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
30. 30.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
33. 33.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) hard part first (c) doing only easy bits (d) one huge deadline
35. 35.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:30 PM (b) 5:00 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:45 PM
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 20 bookmarks in 4 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
37. 37.✂️ Your team must make 27 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
38. 38.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True

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