Leadership Assessment Test

Designed for a quick look at leadership strengths and workplace perceptions, the Leadership Assessment Test contains 30 questions and takes about 6 minutes. Your result highlights care, integrity, results orientation, and overall trust in leadership, offering a practical starting point for reflection and focused development.

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How the Scales are Structured

CareC

Measures how much a manager demonstrates attention, support, and involvement in employees’ needs and well-being.

example score40/50

40/50High careexample score

10 – 22Low care

23 – 37Moderate care

38 – 50High care

A score of 40 falls in the High care range, indicating the manager is generally perceived as attentive and supportive toward the team.

IntegrityI

This scale measures how employees perceive a leader’s honesty, fairness, and adherence to ethical principles.

example score34/50

34/50Moderate integrity trustexample score

10 – 22Low integrity trust

23 – 37Moderate integrity trust

38 – 50High integrity trust

A score of 34 falls in the Moderate integrity trust range, suggesting generally positive perceptions of the leader’s ethics with some areas where confidence may be mixed.

Results OrientationRO

Measures how effectively a manager achieves goals and ensures tasks are completed.

example score24/50

24/50Moderate effectivenessexample score

10 – 22Low effectiveness

23 – 37Moderate effectiveness

38 – 50High effectiveness

A score of 24 falls in the Moderate effectiveness range, suggesting task achievement is generally adequate but may be inconsistent in some situations.

Overall Trust in LeadershipOTiL

This scale measures employees’ overall level of trust in management based on perceived effectiveness, integrity, and care.

example score70/150

70/150Moderate trustexample score

30 – 69Low trust

70 – 110Moderate trust

111 – 150High trust

A score of 70 falls in the Moderate trust range, suggesting a generally acceptable perception of management with room to strengthen consistency and confidence.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

HR and People Ops

41%OF USERS

Use it to quickly measure trust in managers, spot leadership risks, and plan training or culture initiatives.

Team Leaders and Managers

34%OF USERS

Take it to see how their effectiveness, integrity, and care are perceived by the team and what to improve.

Employees in Team Surveys

25%OF USERS

Complete it as part of internal feedback to share how much they trust leadership and why.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Showing CareSC

You?

Average38.6

Typical rangeTypical32.5 – 44.7

Possible10 – 50

IntegrityI

You?

Average27.6

Typical rangeTypical22.5 – 32.8

Possible10 – 50

EffectivenessE

You?

Average30.9

Typical rangeTypical23.8 – 38

Possible10 – 50

Overall assessment of the level of trust in managementOaotlotim

You?

Average97.9

Typical rangeTypical81.2 – 114.6

Possible30 – 150

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

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These are 3 of the 30 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Leadership Assessment Test - Description and methodology of the test

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For managers, team leads, and professionals examining how leadership is practiced, this Leadership Assessment Test offers a structured view of behaviors that shape confidence at work. It is useful when a leadership evaluation needs more than a general impression: the result presents leadership conduct alongside employees' overall trust in their leader. This view can support reflection on current practice and help identify areas for discussion or development.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire reports four constructs. Statements cover direction, priorities, decisions, development, openness, fairness, reliability, and results. As a leadership skills assessment, it suits leaders reflecting on conduct; the result is defined as employees' trust in their leader.

These are the displayed dimensions:

Care (10-50) measures a leader's attention and support for employees: Low care 10-22; Moderate care 23-37; High care 38-50.
Integrity (10-50) measures perceived honesty, fairness, and ethical conduct in a leader: Low integrity trust 10-22; Moderate integrity trust 23-37; High integrity trust 38-50.
Results Orientation (10-50) measures goal achievement and task completion: Low effectiveness 10-22; Moderate effectiveness 23-37; High effectiveness 38-50.
Overall Trust in Leadership (30-150) measures employees' overall trust in their leader: Low trust 30-69; Moderate trust 70-110; High trust 111-150.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item offers five ordered choices, from not at all true or slightly true to completely true. Respondents rate how accurately each first-person statement describes their own leadership conduct, creating a structured self-report rather than an open-ended exercise.

The questionnaire reports the displayed domain results and the overall result in the catalogue's supplied bands. These displayed bands are descriptive result categories for this questionnaire; the cited instruments do not validate this online questionnaire itself.

Dirks and Ferrin (2002) provide the closest evidence for the trust component, treating trust in direct leaders as an important workplace construct. The framework is also conceptually consistent with Avolio and Bass (2004) and with Avolio, Bass, and Jung (1999), who examined the factor structure of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. This questionnaire is not the MLQ itself or a validated adaptation of it.

As a leadership effectiveness test, the result is best read in context. Current events, expectations, power relationships, and self-awareness can shape self-report answers, so one profile is a starting point for reflection rather than a complete account of leadership behavior.

Author: Bernard M. Bass, Bruce J. Avolio

Literature:

Dirks, K. T., & Ferrin, D. L. (2002). Trust in Leadership: Meta-Analytic Findings and Implications for Research and Practice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 611-628. 10.1037/0021-9010.87.4.611
Avolio, B. J., & Bass, B. M. (2004). Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire: Manual and Sampler Set (3rd ed.). Redwood City, CA: Mind Garden.
Avolio, B. J., Bass, B. M., & Jung, D. I. (1999). Re-examining the Components of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(4), 441-462. 10.1348/096317999166789

Updated: 2025-10-02