1. John A. McGinn, Ed.D.
“Coaching Truths for Success”

3. The Extraordinary Leader
(and Chocolate Cake)

4. “The key to successful leadership
today is influence, not authority.”
Ken Blanchard

5. “Leadership is influence, nothing
more, nothing less.”
John C. Maxwell

6. “Success is the progressive
realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale

7. “We are what we repeatedly do;
excellence then is not an act, but
a habit.”
Aristotle

8. “Credibility is the foundation of
leadership.”
Kouzes & Posner
The Leadership Challenge

9. influence (self & others)
+ excellent/credible habits
+ progress towards worthy
goals/ideals
________________________________
extraordinary leader

10. “Habitually influencing myself and
others toward the progressive
realization of a worthy goal.”

11. -Appreciative Inquiry -Attribution Theory
-Change Behavior -Contingency Theory
-Emotional Intelligence -Force Field Analysis
-Groupthink -Level 5 Leadership
-Management by Objectives -Managerial Grid
-OODA Loop -Path-Goal Theory
-Servant Leadership -Seven Habits
-Situational Leadership -SMART
-Social Intelligence -Theory X-Theory Y
-Transactional Leader -Transformational Leader
-Value Based Management -Whole Brain Model

12. “For someone who is good with a
hammer, everything looks like a
nail.”
Stephen Covey

14. PARTICIPATING SELLING
High Relationship/Low Task High Task/High Relationship
-Shares ideas and facilitate in -Explain your decisions and
decision-making provide opportunity for
clarification
-Two-way communication
-Still provides direction but also
-Facilitates and encourages input attempts to achieve follower
and involvement from the ‘buy-in’
followers
DELEGATING TELLING
Low Relationship/Low Task High Task/Low Relationship
-Turns over responsibility for -Provide specific instructions
decisions and implementation (Who, What, When,
Where, and How)
-Closely supervise performance
-One-way communication

15.  Transformational Leadership (Bass)
◦ Improves the values and priorities of others
◦ Views improvement as part of the leadership goal
 Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)
◦ Great leadership works through emotions
◦ Leaders handle themselves and their relationships

16. influence (self & others)
+ excellent/credible habits
+ progress towards worthy
goals/ideals
________________________________
extraordinary leader

17. “Habitually influencing myself and
others toward the progressive
realization of a worthy goal.”

18. Bass, B. M. (1990). Bass & Stodgill’s handbook of leadership:
Theory, research, and managerial applications (3rd ed.). New
York: The Free Press.
Covey, S. (1989). The 7 habits of highly effective people. New
York, NY: Stephen R. Covey.
Goleman, D., Boyatziz, R., & McKee, A. (2004). Primal
leadership: Learning to lead with emotional intelligence.
Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Hersey, P. (1987). The situational leader. Escondido, CA: Center
for Leadership Studies.
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2002). The Leadership Challenge
(3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.
Nightingale, E. (2005). The strangest secret: How to live the life
you desire. Aurora, IL: Simple Truths.

19. John A. McGinn, Ed.D.
I&S Coaching
Denison, Texas
john@iandscoaching.com
www.iandscoaching.com
http://twitter.com/johnmcginn
http://drjohnmcginn.wordpress.com/
“Coaching Truths for Success”