Leadership Skills Worksheet: Project Time Management

Leadership lesson 4: Managing time on a project · Set 986 · 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.✅ What is a mini-deadline? (a) a late fine (b) a holiday (c) a date for one step (d) the final due date
2. 2.🧩 A big project feels scary. What should you do first? (a) give up (b) break it into steps (c) wait for help (d) do it all at once
3. 3.📅 Your art display is due in 11 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 3 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) doing only easy bits (b) forgetting the due date (c) hard part first (d) one huge deadline
5. 5.🗓️ Your project is due in three weeks. When should you start? (a) after it is due (b) in the third week (c) this week (d) the night before
6. 6.⏳ Why keep a spare day or two before the deadline? (a) to start late (b) to rest only (c) for surprises (d) there is no need
7. 7.True or false: “setting mini-deadlines” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.📋 A test is due tomorrow and a poster next week. Which do you do first? (a) make the poster (b) neither (c) study for the test (d) play first
9. 9.📅 Good or poor project planning: starting on the last day? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
10. 10.⏰ You start at 5:45 PM. Homework takes 40 minutes, then project work takes 15 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 6:00 PM (b) 6:55 PM (c) 6:40 PM (d) 6:25 PM
11. 11.Which of these is good project planning? (a) no spare time (b) ignoring the timetable (c) doing only easy bits (d) setting mini-deadlines
12. 12.Which of these is good project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) guessing how long (c) forgetting the due date (d) no task list
13. 13.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) listing tasks first (b) breaking work into steps (c) checking progress weekly (d) one huge deadline
14. 14.📅 Your art display is due in 12 days. Research takes 4 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 3 days. How many spare days will you have?
15. 15.⏰ You start at 3:00 PM. Homework takes 45 minutes, then project work takes 25 minutes. When will you finish? (a) 4:25 PM (b) 3:45 PM (c) 4:10 PM (d) 3:25 PM
16. 16.True or false: “hard part first” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: “breaking work into steps” is good project planning. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) starting on the last day (b) listing tasks first (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) keeping spare days
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) keeping spare days (b) hard part first (c) breaking work into steps (d) doing only easy bits
20. 20.📅 Good or poor project planning: checking progress weekly? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
21. 21.True or false: “doing only easy bits” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.📅 Good or poor project planning: no task list? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
23. 23.📅 Good or poor project planning: keeping spare days? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) guessing how long (c) listing tasks first (d) starting early
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) one huge deadline (b) no task list (c) no spare time (d) starting early
26. 26.True or false: “listing tasks first” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting early (b) keeping spare days (c) no task list (d) setting mini-deadlines
28. 28.📅 Good or poor project planning: forgetting the due date? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
29. 29.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) starting on the last day (b) setting mini-deadlines (c) hard part first (d) using a simple timetable
30. 30.Which of these is good project planning? (a) checking progress weekly (b) ignoring the timetable (c) no task list (d) one huge deadline
31. 31.✂️ Your team must make 27 posters in 3 days, the same number each day. How many posters a day?
32. 32.True or false: “checking progress weekly” is poor project planning. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.📅 Good or poor project planning: setting mini-deadlines? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
34. 34.📅 Good or poor project planning: hard part first? (a) good planning (b) poor planning
35. 35.True or false: “hard part first” is poor project planning. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) listing tasks first (b) no task list (c) setting mini-deadlines (d) starting early
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) hard part first (b) ignoring the timetable (c) breaking work into steps (d) checking progress weekly
38. 38.📅 Your maths exhibit is due in 10 days. Research takes 3 days, making it takes 4 days and practice takes 2 days. How many spare days will you have?
39. 39.📅 Good or poor project planning: using a simple timetable? (a) poor planning (b) good planning
40. 40.Which of these is poor project planning? (a) setting mini-deadlines (b) hard part first (c) checking progress weekly (d) ignoring the timetable

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