You can apply the critical-thinking techniques you learned in this part to develop your leadership skills. Develop your self-awareness by completing the following exercise.

1. Provide a timeline of your life history. What are the major events in your life?

2. Identify your role models. Are these people in your current or past life? What did you learn from them?

3. Describe your strengths and weaknesses.

4. Describe the way you typically solve problems.

5. Identify at least three of your core values. How do they shape the decisions you make?

6. Describe your approach to persuading others or allowing yourself to be persuaded. What types of arguments work best with you?