Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 921 · 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.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:45 PM (b) 3:30 PM (c) 4:00 PM (d) 3:15 PM
2. 2.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 12 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
3. 3.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) keeping spare days (c) forgetting the due date (d) starting early
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) one huge deadline
8. 8.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
9. 9.✂️ Your team must make 36 bookmarks in 6 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
12. 12.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:45 PM
13. 13.📅 Your history chart is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
14. 14.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to rest only (b) to start late (c) there is no need (d) for surprises
15. 15.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) guessing how long (d) breaking work into steps
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) keeping spare days (c) forgetting the due date (d) doing only easy bits
17. 17.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
18. 18.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 54 thank-you cards in 6 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
20. 20.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) do it all at once (c) break it into steps (d) wait for help
21. 21.⏰ You start at 5:00 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 6:15 PM (c) 5:35 PM (d) 5:40 PM
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) no task list (d) ignoring the timetable
23. 23.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:20 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 5:35 PM
25. 25.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:35 PM (b) 4:05 PM (c) 3:30 PM (d) 3:50 PM
27. 27.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
28. 28.True or false: “keeping spare days” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting early (b) no spare time (c) guessing how long (d) doing only easy bits
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) keeping spare days (c) starting on the last day (d) starting early
32. 32.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
34. 34.📅 Your art display is due in 7 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
35. 35.📅 Your science model 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?
36. 36.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) the night before
37. 37.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) neither
39. 39.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline

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