The Novelist
Thorough, context-rich messages. You lay out the background, the details and the considerations because you want your team fully equipped to act. Long messages get skimmed, parked or quietly ignored.
Save your quiz results, ask your team what they see, and build a Traction Shift.
Five habits to watch
What a Novelist tends to do, and what it costs the people around you.
You send the whole backstory before you get to the ask
Your team feels: They read three paragraphs to find the one line that matters
You add detail “just in case,” even when the ask is simple
Your team feels: Simple requests start to feel like projects
You bury several asks in one long message
Your team feels: They answer the first question and miss the other three
My long message sets the length of their reply
Your team feels: They feel they owe an essay back, so they put off replying
You write a memo when a two-minute call would do
Your team feels: A quick decision turns into a slow written back-and-forth
How it shows up
- Opens with the backstory and gets to the ask later
- Writes a memo where a sentence would do
- Packs several asks into one message
When you shift, your team gets
- ✓ The ask in five seconds, context only if they want it
- ✓ Simple asks that stay simple
- ✓ Every ask seen and answered