Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 886 · 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: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.📅 Your school play is due in 15 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
5. 5.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) keeping spare days (c) doing only easy bits (d) ignoring the timetable
6. 6.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) give up (c) wait for help (d) break it into steps
8. 8.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) this week (d) in the third week
9. 9.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) checking progress weekly (c) keeping spare days (d) breaking work into steps
10. 10.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
11. 11.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
12. 12.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) forgetting the due date (c) listing tasks first (d) starting on the last day
15. 15.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) for surprises (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) to start late
16. 16.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
17. 17.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
18. 18.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) ignoring the timetable (c) starting early (d) doing only easy bits
20. 20.📅 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?
21. 21.True or false: “no task list” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
23. 23.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) starting early (d) ignoring the timetable
24. 24.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) doing only easy bits (d) guessing how long
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) starting on the last day
26. 26.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:10 PM (b) 5:40 PM (c) 5:15 PM (d) 5:55 PM
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) listing tasks first (d) no spare time
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) no spare time (d) using a simple timetable
30. 30.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) listing tasks first (c) one huge deadline (d) no spare time
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 40 posters in 5 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
34. 34.Which of these is good project planning? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
35. 35.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
36. 36.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: “guessing how long” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) good planning (b) poor planning

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