Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 983 · 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: doing only easy bits? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
2. 2.True or false: “guessing how long” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 14 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) neither (b) make the poster (c) study for the test (d) play first
6. 6.📅 Good or poor project planning: one huge deadline? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
8. 8.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is good project planning. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting early? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
11. 11.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) breaking work into steps (b) hard part first (c) listing tasks first (d) guessing how long
12. 12.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
13. 13.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) doing only easy bits (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
14. 14.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
15. 15.True or false: “starting on the last day” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.📅 Your science model is due in 9 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
17. 17.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) using a simple timetable (c) forgetting the due date (d) no spare time
18. 18.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) do it all at once (d) wait for help
19. 19.✂️ Your team must make 24 posters in 6 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) doing only easy bits (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
21. 21.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) using a simple timetable (b) starting on the last day (c) breaking work into steps (d) starting early
22. 22.⏳ 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
23. 23.✂️ Your team must make 24 paper flowers in 3 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
24. 24.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) doing only easy bits (b) checking progress weekly (c) breaking work into steps (d) setting mini-deadlines
25. 25.✂️ Your team must make 32 paper flowers in 4 days, the same number each day. How many paper flowers a day?
26. 26.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) checking progress weekly (c) using a simple timetable (d) one huge deadline
27. 27.✂️ Your team must make 12 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
28. 28.📅 Your eco-club poster is due in 14 days. Research takes 2 days, making it takes 5 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) ignoring the timetable (b) forgetting the due date (c) checking progress weekly (d) doing only easy bits
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 32 posters in 4 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
32. 32.📅 Your school play is due in 8 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 2 days and practice takes 1 days. How many spare days will you have?
33. 33.✂️ Your team must make 20 bookmarks in 5 days, the same number each day. How many bookmarks a day?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) no spare time (b) guessing how long (c) checking progress weekly (d) no task list
35. 35.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.✂️ Your team must make 40 paper bags in 5 days, the same number each day. How many paper bags a day?
37. 37.📅 Good or poor project planning: breaking work into steps? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
38. 38.True or false: “one huge deadline” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is good project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) guessing how long (c) ignoring the timetable (d) starting on the last day
40. 40.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False

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