Letters of Recommendation: Leadership and Management
Many schools have suggestions similar to the one below when it comes to letters of recommendation.
Two professional recommendation letters are required, providing information about your leadership and management potential. As such, at least one recommendation should come from your workplace; your current supervisor or manager is usually a good choice. The other recommendation should be from someone who has had a chance to evaluate you in a professional setting, for example, a client, a former supervisor or a colleague from your community service or extracurricular activities.
I realize that leadership is something that anyone can do and many people to display in their day to day lives, but when writing these letters will the day-to-day leadership suffice? I feel like admissions officers are looking for more extraordinary examples of leadership that occur when people rise to the occasion or inspire others. I believe such occasions of leadership are situational: they don't always happen and sometimes they shouldn't happen, such as in the cases where certain people are the pre-determined leaders in which case we should raise those people up and set them up to take their assumed position. Sometimes the best way to lead or manage a situation is to let others lead or manage the situation.
The reason for posting this is that I don't feel like my work situations have allowed me to develop any document-able extraordinary leadership opportunities.