Leadership makes up 50% of your overall grade.
Leadership is subjective, and therefore remains this mystery. Have a good report with your SPC, and your platoon mates. Don't shy away from tasks, brief of STEX, and most of all, be someone that people trust and look up to. Leadership is not throwing you peers under the bus, or talking shit about enlisted.
Two years ago I went to a roof top bar in San Diego. There were about 50 navy personnel, in their dress uniforms, celebrating so many years in service. A guy in a plaid shirt and khaki shirt walked up to me and asked, "are you a Navy Chief wife?" I said no. He said, "I'm in the Navy, and I work with these people. They won't recognize me. Watch this." He then took someone's cover and started dancing around. A Navy Chief got annoyed and snatched it back. This guy then said to me, "check out THIS." He pulls out his CAC, and shows it to me.
"Lieutenant Junior Grade?" I said, incredulous that someone would flash a CAC...
"Yes. That means I'm an officer. And these people, they're my bitches. That guy there? He's my janitor. And that guy there, he does what I say."
I was stunned that people like him existed. I tried to give him chances to redeem himself,
"Don't you think that's a little rough, saying those things? I think they are celebrating 20 years in service, and being an officer doesn't make you better than someone else." I then asked him if he went to the Naval Academy. He said,
"No, I went to a real college."
"Oh, so you did OCC?"
"Yes."
Only military people know what OCC is, so this really showed me how oblivious he was. I asked him why it was necessary to say those things about people he worked with, or anyone at all, but he said,
"Hey, let me get your digits. I pulled out my phone, but not to put his number in. I quickly found a picture of me cheesing at my OCS graduation, busted foot and all. I then flashed THIS at him.
"I just want to let you know, that this is me at my OCS graduation. I'm not showing to impress you, but to tell you that all this shit you've been telling me, has made me REALLY embarrassed for you. To flash your CAC and shit talk about enlisted to the only other officer in here...I just don't know. It's like bad comedy, SIR."
Don't be this guy, please. You're not better than someone else because you went to college. I wish I had enlisted first. Being a leader isn't ordering someone around, it's having people trust you, and being a good example. It's having people look up to you and think, as long as this person is around, I'm going to be okay. It's as simple as that.