5.Identify a situation when you were in a leadership position (in a group, in the workplace, within

your family, etc.) To what extent were you able to use approach to leadership? What made that easier or more difficult for you?

6.When you have worked in student groups, how frequently have leaders emerged in the

groups? What difficulties occur when leaders are leading peers? Are there ways to overcome

these difficulties?

7.Pick a decision that you have made recently that has had important consequences for you. This decision may be your decision concerning which college to attend, which major to select, which part time job to take, or even whether or not to take a part time job. Using the material in this chapter, analyze the way in which you made the decision:

1.Identify the criteria you used, either consciously or unconsciously, to guide your decision making

2.List the alternatives that you considered. Were these all the possible alternatives? Did you unconsciously (or consciously) ignore some important alternatives?

3.How much information did you have about each alternative? Did you base the decision on complete or incomplete information?

4.Try to remember how you reached a decision. Did you sit down and consciously think through the implications of each alternative, or did you make a decision on the basis of intuition? Did you use any rules of thumb to help you make the decision?

5.Having answered those five questions, do you think in retrospect that you made a reasonable decision? What, if anything, might you do to improve your ability to make good decisions in the future?