Introducing Extra-Ordinary Leadership: Adding Something Extra To The Ordinary By Dolly Waddell

My brand new podcast, Extra-Ordinary Leaders with Dolly Waddell, is live!

This has been months in the making and I'm thrilled to be able to finally share it with you!

Extra-Ordinary Leaders is part of a wider mission to equip leaders with the tools they need to achieve extra-ordinary leadership in the 21st Century – a big challenge I know! 

To help me on this mission I am speaking with founders, co-founders, senior leaders, managing directors, and leadership consultants. Together, we’ll build a toolkit of valuable, practical advice that you can apply to your leadership approach. 

These blogs aim to give you my favourite moments from each episode, and round up the most valuable lessons into some practical steps you can take with you.

Extra-Ordinary Leaders with Dolly Waddell is available wherever you get your podcasts.

Let’s kick things off with why I started this podcast in the first place…

The reason behind Extra-Ordinary Leaders

We all share in our ordinariness. We all have the same basic needs: food, water, finances, health, connection and purpose, to name a few. To acquire those basic needs we adopt habits, routines, and rituals – all of which become rather ordinary over time.

When I talk about “extra-ordinary”, I mean something extra we can add to our ordinary. Something that makes the outcomes of life special, standout, or unique – particularly within the context of our leadership approach.

These extra components are things that may seem perfectly normal and “ordinary” to the people who practise them, and are therefore often overlooked when people talk about leadership. 

It’s these seemingly ordinary things practised by extra-ordinary leaders that this show aims to uncover.

Why another leadership podcast?

Leadership is a rather flooded market. There’s no end of books, blogs, and podcasts dedicated to exactly that. So what makes this podcast different?

In the work I do with my business, The People Performance Consultancy, I’ve been fortunate enough to come across some hugely inspirational leaders. 

Now I want to find a way to share the advice, wisdom, and perspective I’ve learned from coaching them over the years.

But, rather than providing a certain formula for success or another thing you have to remember to employ, (spoiler – that doesn't exist!) I want to focus on the reunion of enjoyment and performance, two things that are often isolated from one another when it comes to leadership.

Battling against boredom

For example – did you know that almost 60 per cent of leaders report feeling worn out at the end of each day?! It’s no surprise when we consider how much we have to deal with. But we worked hard to get to where we are today, and I want to reignite the passion and inspiration in all of us. 

We can’t perform to our full potential if we’re not enjoying ourselves. It’s as simple as that. 

I want to inspire senior leaders to find genuine pleasure in leading their teams, to uncover their unique superpower or extra-ordinary capabilities, and to build a toolkit of actionable, practical advice that will advance their leadership ability. 

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If this sounds like something you’re interested in, follow along on LinkedIn to be kept up to date – I’ll notify you each time a new episode goes live. Episodes will be available on all major podcast directories and will be released weekly.

Catch up with the pilot here.