I am a doctoral student, and I am researching leadership traits that support successful grant seeking in community colleges. I would like to find a survey instrument and appropriate interview questions that I could adapt to allow leaders to self-report their leadership traits and to compare those responses to the perceptions of their direct reports. I looked at MLQ, but it is cost prohibitive. As I am struggling to find any similar research, I have been unable to find any instruments or questions were previously used and validated. Any help would be appreciated.