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I was involved in other things in high school, but I got into leadership in college. I was pretty active in student leadership all throughout my undergrad, in various capacities. Vice-President of Educational Programming for Hall Council, NACURH representative, National Residence Hall Honorary Community Service Chair, Secretary for Alpha Phi Omega (community service fraternity), Secretary for the English Students Association (club for English majors), President of the English Students Association, etc.
I learned a lot about managing people, planning tasks, executing tasks, delegation, organizing, promotion, and reviewing tasks. I learned how to write a constitution for a student organization, how to plan events, how to fundraise, and how to budget for an organization.
I use the skills I learned from student leadership every day in my capacity as a manager.
For what it's worth, I found it easier to get involved in leadership in college over high school. In high school, the same people ran for class councils or ASB over and over again, and it also required a whole class period a day towards that. I didn't have time in my schedule for that (my extra period was choir).
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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