Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 944 · 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.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) wait for help (b) break it into steps (c) give up (d) do it all at once
3. 3.✂️ Your team must make 18 paper flowers in 2 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
4. 4.📋 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) neither (d) play first
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no task list (b) one huge deadline (c) keeping spare days (d) doing only easy bits
8. 8.True or false: “forgetting the due date” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.⏰ You start at 4:00 PM. Homework takes 35 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 5:00 PM (b) 5:15 PM (c) 4:25 PM (d) 4:35 PM
10. 10.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) keeping spare days (d) one huge deadline
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting early (b) guessing how long (c) breaking work into steps (d) hard part first
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) breaking work into steps (b) checking progress weekly (c) starting early (d) starting on the last day
14. 14.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
16. 16.📅 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?
17. 17.True or false: “starting on the last day” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) no task list (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
19. 19.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) there is no need (b) to start late (c) for surprises (d) to rest only
20. 20.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) keeping spare days (c) forgetting the due date (d) hard part first
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) no spare time (d) listing tasks first
22. 22.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper flowers in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
23. 23.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) guessing how long
24. 24.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) ignoring the timetable (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
26. 26.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no task list (b) doing only easy bits (c) guessing how long (d) using a simple timetable
28. 28.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.⏰ You start at 5:30 PM. Homework takes 30 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:30 PM (b) 5:45 PM (c) 6:15 PM (d) 6:00 PM
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) hard part first (c) using a simple timetable (d) doing only easy bits
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 54 name badges in 6 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
32. 32.📅 Your school play is due in 13 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) ignoring the timetable (d) listing tasks first
36. 36.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a holiday (c) a late fine (d) a date for one step
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) using a simple timetable (b) checking progress weekly (c) listing tasks first (d) ignoring the timetable
38. 38.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) this week (c) in the third week (d) after it is due
40. 40.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) poor planning (b) good planning

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