Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 923 · 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.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) there is no need (c) to rest only (d) for surprises
2. 2.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a date for one step (b) a holiday (c) the final due date (d) a late fine
3. 3.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) forgetting the due date (c) no spare time (d) starting on the last day
4. 4.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) using a simple timetable
6. 6.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
7. 7.📅 Your school play is due in 9 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
8. 8.⏰ You start at 3:15 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:55 PM (b) 3:40 PM (c) 4:20 PM (d) 4:35 PM
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) starting early
10. 10.⏰ You start at 5:15 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:15 PM (b) 6:00 PM (c) 5:40 PM (d) 5:35 PM
11. 11.True or false: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: “no spare time” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) guessing how long
14. 14.✂️ Your team must make 28 thank-you cards in 4 days, the same number each day. How many thank-you cards a day?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no spare time (c) starting on the last day (d) checking progress weekly
16. 16.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) in the third week (b) the night before (c) after it is due (d) this week
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) hard part first (b) checking progress weekly (c) no spare time (d) keeping spare days
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
19. 19.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 12 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
20. 20.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) one huge deadline (d) keeping spare days
21. 21.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) using a simple timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) starting on the last day
22. 22.📅 Your science model 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?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) one huge deadline (d) hard part first
24. 24.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:45 PM (b) 6:20 PM (c) 5:50 PM (d) 6:05 PM
25. 25.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) play first (c) study for the test (d) neither
26. 26.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 20 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:20 PM (b) 3:35 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:55 PM
28. 28.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
30. 30.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) no task list (b) keeping spare days (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
31. 31.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
32. 32.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) no task list (c) ignoring the timetable (d) one huge deadline
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) no task list (d) starting early
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) no spare time
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) guessing how long (c) no spare time (d) setting mini-deadlines
36. 36.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.✂️ Your team must make 12 paper flowers in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
39. 39.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True

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