Show how you influenced the decision process rather than claiming authority you did not have.

Leadership evidence can come from framing the problem, aligning stakeholders, resolving disagreement, or moving the group toward a decision.

Describe the decision, your specific contribution, what resistance or ambiguity you handled, and what changed because of your involvement.

Choose examples where your absence would plausibly have changed the outcome or slowed the team materially. You can also use this CaseBasix guide for a structured review.

I would not overread 'keep in touch' unless they give you something concrete to do next.

Another thing that helped me was pausing for five seconds before answering instead of trying to recover instantly.