Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 928 · 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: “one huge deadline” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) study for the test (b) play first (c) make the poster (d) neither
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 40 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
4. 4.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting on the last day (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
8. 8.🗓️ 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
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
10. 10.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) for surprises (c) to start late (d) to rest only
11. 11.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) no task list (c) starting on the last day (d) keeping spare days
13. 13.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) one huge deadline (c) forgetting the due date (d) setting mini-deadlines
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
16. 16.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.✂️ Your team must make 30 paper bags in 6 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) starting early (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) no task list
19. 19.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
20. 20.⏰ You start at 4:45 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 35 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 5:10 PM (c) 5:45 PM (d) 5:20 PM
21. 21.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guessing how long (b) forgetting the due date (c) starting early (d) no task list
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.🧩 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
26. 26.Which of these is good project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) guessing how long
28. 28.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) starting on the last day (c) no spare time (d) one huge deadline
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) no spare time
31. 31.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
33. 33.Which of these is good project planning? (a) guessing how long (b) starting on the last day (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) starting early
35. 35.True or false: “listing tasks first” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 48 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
37. 37.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) starting on the last day (d) doing only easy bits
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
40. 40.📅 Your science model is due in 6 days. Research takes 1 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?

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