#81: Alice Bromage - Empowering Success & The Leadership Of Queen Elizabeth II

There's a lot of noise in leadership circles around themes like get comfortable being uncomfortable, bring calm to chaos, control the uncontrollable. But how do we know when we're actually uncomfortable? Or in chaos? Are we supposed to be scared by these times...or do they offer an opportunity to excel and demonstrate our best at a time when everything says we should be at our worst? 

To answer these questions Alice Bromage joins Fran Racioppi from London to discuss how we actually know when we're not acting our best and how we first define what our best really looks like.  Alice founded a leadership development program focused on what she calls Resilient Leadership - or the ability to determine what's your best, when you are not acting your best, and how to get back to your best. 

As an officer in the British Royal Army, Alice served under Queen Elizabeth II, so Fran took the opportunity to ask Alice all about the Queen, her leadership, and how the queen set the example for world leadership for over 70 years. 

Learn more about Alice and Empowering Success at www.empowering-success.co.uk and on social media @empoweringsuccessuk. 

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Highlights:

-0:00 Welcome to The Jedburgh Podcast from London

-5:12 Difference between pressure and stress

-10:17 Operating along the Resilience Spectrum

-19:30 Three Self Assessment Engines (Strength, Challenge, Feedback)

-33:54 Alice joins the British Army

-41:00 Helping people become themselves

-44:05 The diplomacy of Queen Elizabeth II

-52:29 How Queen Elizabeth controlled the narrative

-57:29 Queen Elizabeth’s impact on the military

-1:01:09 Economic changes under Queen Elizabeth

-1:07:06 Lightning round on Alice’s leadership rules and mantras 

Quotes: 

-”Pressure is where you are in  the flow, you’re producing the goods, you’re actually kind of thriving on that high tempo piece.” (7:59)

-”Stress is where you’ve gone off the other end. You’re starting to run unnaturally on adrenaline…Your decision making starts to drop. Your ability to communicate well will often start to drop.” (8:08)

-”The business will never outgrow your personality.” (17:07)

-”The biggest way in which you are going to start to provide stress rather than pressure is also if you break someone’s value chain.” (29:34)

-”When you get that incongruence between what you think you should be and how you actually are…that’s where you often see leaders being inconsistent.” (41:30)

-”If you’re scared of losing your power, you don’t really hold the power in the first place.” (50:04)

-”If you’re in leadership, you can be strong without being noisy.” (1:06:47)

Alice’s Three Daily Foundations to Success:

-Build a great team to fill your weaknesses & say thank you

-Clear the inbox early to stay present throughout the day

-Manage your energy and take a moment away from the noise

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