Individual Leadership Self-Assessment
(ILSA)

Matthew Webster Childress has requested that you provide your perceptions regarding his/her leadership characteristics on the scales below.

The individual Leadership Self-Assessment instrument (ILSA) is a 360° process designed to provide insightful, critical friends feedback in a variety of leadership settings to serve as a vehicle for a leader’s self-development. In order for your friend/colleague to obtain the most useful and authentic feedback regarding his/her leadership, ten or more critical friends’ responses are needed. Your responses will remain anonymous and only aggregated results will be shared.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Instructions: On the scale below, choose the number that best matches your perception of your colleague’s/friend’s trait, characteristic, skill, or disposition indicated on this survey. If you believe that your colleague/friend frequently exhibits the trait, characteristic, skill, or disposition AND many others or most other people have told you that s/he does, you may select (6) or (7). If only a few people or no one else has told you that your colleague/friend exhibits this trait, characteristic, skill, or disposition and you believe s/he frequently exhibits it, you may choose (5) as the highest rating.

1. My colleague/friend does not exhibit this trait/characteristic
2. My colleague/friend infrequently exhibits this trait/characteristic
3. My colleague/friend occasionally exhibits this trait/characteristic
4. My colleague/friend usually exhibits this trait/characteristic
5. My colleague/friend frequently exhibits this trait/characteristic
6. My colleague/friend frequently exhibits this trait/characteristic and many other people have told me that they exhibit this trait/characteristic
7. My colleague/friend frequently exhibits this trait/characteristic and most other people have told me that they exhibit this trait/characteristic

My colleague/friend is ...