Adapted from Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman & Fetter (1990) · 23 items · ~7 minutes
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Scores below are on a 1–7 scale (1 = low, 7 = high) across six leadership behavior styles.
The original Transformational Leadership Inventory (TLI) is a 360°-style instrument where followers rate their supervisor. Since Lens only has your own perspective, we've adapted the same 23 items into a first-person self-report ("I..." instead of "My supervisor..."), preserving each item's meaning. This is a common and accepted adaptation approach in leadership research, but treat your six scores as a self-perceived leadership style, not a validated 360° leadership assessment.
Source: Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Moorman, R. H., & Fetter, R. (1990). Transformational leader behaviors and their effects on followers' trust in leader, satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Leadership Quarterly, 1(2), 107–142. Chosen over commercially-licensed alternatives (e.g. the MLQ) because it is a peer-reviewed academic scale, not a paid proprietary instrument.