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Leadership Instruments Library 2.0
1.1 Competing Values Framework (CVF) for Assessing Organizational Culture
1.2 Educational Leadership Assessment (ELA) Tools
1.3 Global Leader Index (GLI)
1.4 Government Tools
1.5 Instructional Leadership Evaluation and Development Program (ILEAD)
1.6 International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
1.7 Organizational capacity: The Social Capital Assessment Tool (SCAT)
1.8 Charting Impact Framework
1.9 Organizational Leadership Development and Succession Planning Diagnostic (Bridgespan)
1.10 Nonprofit and NGO Talent Development and Leadership Pipeline Strategy
1.11 Organizational Leadership in Philanthropy
1.12 Organizational Leadership Trait Identification (Bridgespan)
1.13 Political Leadership after Communism
1.14 Return on Investments in Leadership Development in Healthcare
1.15 Volunteer Leadership Development Instrument (VLDI)
1.16 Boldness Index or Influence Preference Assessment
1.17 U.S. Army Automated Command Climate Survey
2.1 Trait
2.1.1 Campbell Leadership Descriptor (CLD)
2.1.2 Campbell Leadership Index CLI ®
2.1.3 Leader Attributes Inventory (LAI)
2.1.4 Leadership Archetype Questionnaire (LAQ)
2.1.5 Leadership Traits Questionnaire (Northouse, P. G.)
2.2 Behavioral
2.2.1 Interpersonal Influence Inventory (III)
2.2.2 Leader Behavior Analysis (LBA)
2.2.3 Situational Leadership Instrument (SLII®)
2.2.4 Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ & LBDQXII)
2.2.5 Syncretical Model of Charismatic Transformational Leadership (SMCTL)
2.2.6 Leadership Skills Inventory (LSI)
2.2.7 Leadership Skills Profile (LSP)
2.2.8 Leatherman Leadership Questionnaire (LLQ)
2.2.9 Managerial Practices Survey (MPS)
2.2.10 Personality Preferences Style Assessments (PPSA)
2.2.11 Toxic Leadership Scale (TLS)
2.3 Cognitive
2.3.1 Benchmarks
2.3.2 BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory (BarOn EQ-i®)
2.3.3 CK Scale of Charismatic Leadership
2.3.4 Collaborative Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaires (TPCLSAQ)
2.3.5 Harris Self-Assessment Instruments
2.3.6 Leader Competency Inventory (LCI-Kelner)
2.3.7 Leader Competency Inventory (LCI-Penn State)
2.3.8 Leadership Development Evaluation, The Handbook of (Hannum et al., 2006)
2.3.9 Leadership Development Report (LDR)
2.3.10 Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale (LSES)
2.3.11 Leadership Tool Assessment Tools
2.3.12 Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™
2.3.13 Performance Skills Leader (PSL)
2.3.14 Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA)
3.1 Contingency
3.1.1 Situational Mindsets Indicator® Report (SMI ®)
3.1.2 Leadership Spectrum Profile (LSP)
3.1.3 Leadership Versatility Index (LVI)
3.1.4 Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC)
3.1.5 Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire (PGLQ)
3.1.6 Tacit Knowledge for Measuring Leadership (a scenario-based tool)
3.1.7 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Leadership Assessment Tool
3.2 Transactional
3.2.1 Collaborative Leadership Self-Assessment Tools (CLSAT)
3.2.2 360-Degree Feedback
3.2.3 Azimuth or “Leader Azimuth Check II” (LAC II) 
3.2.4 Community Leadership Development Measure (CLDM)
3.2.5 Community-Based Leadership Development Measurement (CBLDM)
3.2.6 Leader Member Exchange (LMX-7)
3.2.7 Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)
3.2.8 Model of Relational Leadership
3.2.9 Strategic Leadership Development Inventory (SLDI)
3.2.10 Team Assessments
3.2.11 Team Effectiveness Survey (Hall)
3.2.12 Team Excellence and Collaborative Team Leader Questionnaire
3.2.13 Team Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (TMLQ)
4.1 Authentic Leadership Instruments
4.1.1 Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ)
4.1.2 The Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI)
4.2 Empowering Behavior Questionnaire (EBQ)
4.3 Empowerment Profile (EP)
4.4 Ethical Leadership Instruments
4.4.1 Ethical Leadership at Work (ELW) Questionnaire
4.4.2 Ethical Leadership Scale or Survey (ELS)
4.4.3 Improved Measure of Ethical Leadership (IMEL)
4.4.4 The Ethical Leadership Style Questionnaire
4.5 Global Transformational Leadership Scale (GTL)
4.6 Leader Identity Stage (LIS)
4.7 Leader Self-Identity (LSI)
4.8 Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ, MLQ 5x)
4.9 Socially Responsible Leadership Scale (SRLS and SRLS-R2)
4.10 Servant Leadership instruments
4.10.1 Servant Leadership Scale by Ehrhart (2004)
4.10.2 Servant Leadership Questionnaire, Barbuto and Wheeler (2006)
4.10.3 Servant Leadership Scale, Liden et al. (2008)
4.10.4 Servant Leadership Behavior Scale (SLBS)
4.10.5 Servant Leadership Survey (SLS)
4.10.6 Organizational Leadership Assessment by Laub (1999)
4.11 Transformational Leadership Instruments
4.11.1 Leader Inventory (TLI)
4.11.2 Survey of Transformational Leadership (STL)
5. CROSS SECTION INSTRUMENTS
5.1 Adaptive Leadership Instruments
5.1.1 The Raei Adaptive Leadership with Authority Scale (ALWAS)
5.1.2 The Adaptive Leadership Behavior Scale (ALBS)
5.1.3 The Adaptive Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ)
5.2 Inclusive Leadership Scale Instruments (ILS)
5.2.1 Inclusive Leadership Model, Carmeli et al. (2010)
5.2.2 Work Group Inclusion Scale, Chung et al. (2020)
5.2.3 Inclusive Leadership Scale, Northouse (2021)
5.3 Kelley Followership Questionnaire (KFQ)
5.4 Gender-Leader Bias Questionnaire (GLBQ)
6. METHODS AND LIMITS
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