[header] How to be a leader in your group [title] Make the decisions about where to go. [step] If you become known as the person who comes up with the plans when everyone gets together, your friends will start looking to you as their leader. This doesn't mean you make plans without thinking about your friends, however. 
Serve as a mediator if your friends have differing likes. Choose one friend's favorite lunch spot this week, then another friend's favorite next week.