Just for a moment, step back and view your environment, the teams you work with and the teams you lead as a novel. Is it one you enjoy reading, find you can’t put the book down, struggle to get through the first chapter or jump straight to the end to see how it finishes? The world we work in is segmented by genre and it is essential that you are able to identify and become intimately involved with your genre in order to lead the story. Understand the setting, the characters you have to play with, the major or minor roles, their relationships and what control or influence you have in where the writing of this story goes. Let’s get creative with the story you tell, how it will develop and what kind of ending will eventuate when you turn that last page!

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2. What we’ll explore
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Jazzy titles & leadership promises
Classifying your genre
Using character & narrative
The Snowflake Method
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3. A Novel Way of Leading
Simone Jo Moore

4. The Books
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5. Jazzy Titles
or just common words?

6. The First 10 … which engage you?
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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
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The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations
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Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
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Building Highly Effective Teams: How to Transform Virtual Teams to Cohesive Professional Networks - a practical...
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Leadership by the Book: Tools to Transform Your Workplace
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7. Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership…
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If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles
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We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most
important ones to help you maximise your own and your organisation's performance.
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8. The Promise…
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these books will inspire you to:
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Motivate others to excel
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Manage with tough empathy
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Build your team's selfconfidence in others
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Credit others for your
success
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Provoke positive change
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Increase self-awareness
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Set direction
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Draw strength from adversity
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Encourage smart risk-taking
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and more…
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9. “It is what you read
when you don’t have to,
that determines what
you will be when you
can’t help it.”
Oscar Wilde
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10. Genre
What’s your kind of story?

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12. If you could be any character what would that be?
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13. As that character…
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What kind of relationship do you need to have with others?
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Do you get to change anyone?
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What kind of story do you tell?
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How will your story develop and
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What kind of ending will eventuate when you turn that last page?
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If you are going to lead relevant, successful teams,
then you need to know which parts of your story are
doing well, and which are not.
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14. “Most people are other
people. Their thoughts are
someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
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15. Character Charts
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How many characters do you have?
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What kind of characters do you have around you?
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Are they minor or major roles?
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Some key areas:
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Speech and language/communication
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Everyday behaviour/habits
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The Past
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Relationships with others
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Mental attitude/personal beliefs
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Likes/favourites
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16. Building the Narrative
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17. Narrative Influencers
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18. The Snowflake Method
Randy Ingermanson

19. The Snowflake Method
1. Write a one-sentence summary of your team.
2. Expand the sentence to a paragraph describing the
story narrative, any major events and the ending.
3. Now consider the main character and write a one page
summary for each, considering the following points:
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A one-sentence summary of the character’s storyline.
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The character’s motivation (what does he/she want abstractly?).
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The character’s goal (what does he/she want concretely?).
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The character’s conflict (what prevents him/her from reaching this goal?).
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The character’s epiphany (what will he/she learn, how will he/she change?).
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A one-paragraph summary of the character’s storyline.
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20. The Snowflake Method
4. Go back to the summary you wrote in step 2 and
expand each sentence into a paragraph:
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Take several hours and expand each sentence of your summary paragraph into
a full paragraph. All but the last paragraph should end in a disaster. The final
paragraph should tell how the book ends.
5. Write a one page description for each major character,
which tells the story from their point of view.
6. Expand your one page plot synopsis into a four page
plot synopsis.
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21. The Snowflake Method
7. Expand your character descriptions from Step 3 into full
‘character charts’.
8. Using the expanded synopsis, make a list of every
scene you will need to write to complete the novel.
9. Using the scene list, write a multi-paragraph narrative
description of each scene.
10. Write your first draft.
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22. Summary
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Being able to use a Novel approach to Leadership gives you
the ability to:
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hope until there is none
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know it is not ended until you choose to end it
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continue the story
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always write the sequel and where necessary,
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write the prequel to explain the misunderstood or
unknown.
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23. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over
and over again, there is no use in
reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde
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24. Thank you for listening
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About Me
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www.simonejomoore.wix.com/simonejomoore
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mooresimonejo@gmail.com
• Source Material…
• http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/
• Ideas comes and go; stories stay - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
• The Stories We Construct, Stephen P Anderson
• http://ingermanson.com
• http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2014/02/03/the-most-undervalued-leadershiptraits-of-women/
• http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-featured-Effective-Executive-Drucker/dp/
1422157970
• http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140105233532-23074630-on-loveleadership-what-real-leaders-do?trk=eml-ced-b-art-Ch-6&ut=2UvwI_TIMzfS41
• http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3565.Oscar_Wilde?page=1
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