Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 959 · 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.Which of these is good project planning? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) starting on the last day (d) listing tasks first
2. 2.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) starting early (c) listing tasks first (d) setting mini-deadlines
4. 4.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) the final due date (b) a late fine (c) a date for one step (d) a holiday
5. 5.📅 Good or poor project planning: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) no task list
7. 7.⏳ 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
8. 8.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) study for the test (c) play first (d) make the poster
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) no spare time (c) listing tasks first (d) hard part first
10. 10.Which of these is good project planning? (a) one huge deadline (b) starting on the last day (c) hard part first (d) forgetting the due date
11. 11.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) do it all at once (b) wait for help (c) break it into steps (d) give up
12. 12.True or false: “using a simple timetable” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) using a simple timetable (c) checking progress weekly (d) breaking work into steps
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) checking progress weekly (b) listing tasks first (c) doing only easy bits (d) hard part first
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) using a simple timetable (d) checking progress weekly
16. 16.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) doing only easy bits (c) one huge deadline (d) starting early
17. 17.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) keeping spare days (b) breaking work into steps (c) no task list (d) hard part first
18. 18.✂️ Your team must make 4 name badges in 2 days, the same number each day. How many name badges a day?
19. 19.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) breaking work into steps (c) hard part first (d) checking progress weekly
20. 20.True or false: “ignoring the timetable” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.📅 Good or poor project planning: listing tasks first? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
22. 22.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 18 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
24. 24.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
25. 25.📅 Good or poor project planning: guessing how long? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) forgetting the due date (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: ignoring the timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting early (c) checking progress weekly (d) forgetting the due date
30. 30.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: “starting early” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) the night before (b) after it is due (c) in the third week (d) this week
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: no spare time? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) breaking work into steps (d) no task list
35. 35.Which of these is good project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) no spare time (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
36. 36.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) one huge deadline (c) no spare time (d) forgetting the due date
39. 39.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.⏰ You start at 3:30 PM. Homework takes 25 minutes, then project work takes 20 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 3:50 PM (b) 3:55 PM (c) 4:30 PM (d) 4:15 PM

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