Episode 349: You Don’t Need a Title to Lead | Chris Jochum on Trust, Culture & Courage

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What if leadership has nothing to do with your title—and everything to do with how you show up?
On this episode of the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast, Coach John Perry sits down with Dr. Chris Jochum to talk about what leadership really looks like when it moves beyond a position on an organizational chart.
Chris is the founder and CEO of CJ Leadership Solutions, Professor and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Fort Hays State University, author of *You Don’t Have to Leave to Lead* and *The Department Chair*, and host of *The Department Chair Leadership Podcast*.
Chris believes leadership is a minute-by-minute choice to influence others through character, courage, service, and relationships.
In this conversation, John and Chris dive into leading yourself before attempting to lead others, building trust, creating healthy organizational culture, developing leaders from within, having courageous conversations, navigating conflict, and turning core values from “words on a wall” into behaviors people actually live.
They also discuss Chris’s “Acres of Diamonds” philosophy—the idea that many organizations don't have a talent problem; they have a leadership-development problem. The people capable of transforming your organization may already be in the building.
If you’re a coach, teacher, business leader, parent, administrator, or simply someone who wants to positively influence the people around you, this conversation is for you.
Leadership isn't something you get someday when someone gives you a title.
You can lead right where you are.
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