The leader, the leader's boss and three to five direct reports complete questionnaires about their perceptions of the leader's performance. Individual responses of direct reports remain anonymous and are shown as averages only.
Confidential feedback is provided to the leader in a non-threatening format.
The ABLE measures the nine basic leader skills validated by years of research as the most important to high performing leaders. Having extensive knowledge about any or all of these skills is quite different from actually applying each one on the job. The ABLE does not measure unchangeable traits like most 360 degree instruments, but rather critical leader skills. The nine leader scales have shown a high internal consistency with a Cronbach alpha of .92. Inter-rater agreement is high with a correlation coefficient of .89.