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ILS

The Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) is a 12-item self-report measure that assesses unit-level leadership behaviors critical to successful implementation of evidence-based practices and innovations. Developed by Aarons, Ehrhart, and Farahnak in 2014, the ILS measures four dimensions of implementation leadership: proactive leadership, knowledgeable leadership, supportive leadership, and perseverant leadership. This brief, validated instrument is designed to capture frontline leaders' (managers, supervisors, unit heads) implementation-specific behaviors as perceived by clinical staff, and is widely used in healthcare implementation research to evaluate leadership effectiveness and predict implementation success.

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Implementation Leadership Scale
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / implementation-science
  • Aarons, G. A., Ehrhart, M. G., Farahnak, L. R., & Sklar, M. (2014). Aligning leadership across systems and organizations to develop integrated care. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(2), 159–178. · URL
  • Aarons, G. A., Ehrhart, M. G., & Farahnak, L. R. (2014). The Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS): Development of a brief measure of unit level implementation leadership. Implementation Science, 9, 106. · DOI 10.1186/1748-5908-9-45
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