28 February 2022

 

 

In November 1998, Shock Records released an EP that contained a track titled Eve of the War.

 

The band was Australian, named Alchemist.

 

The genre, progressive death metal.

 

This EP is long deleted, but Eve of the War was included on the band's later album Embryonics. 

 

The track itself was a cover of a track from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, which he released in 1978. The Eve of the War was one of the hit singles of his War of the Worlds rendering, the entire recording for which won an award for The Best Recording in Science Fiction and Fantasy, as judged by Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Alfred Hitchcock (among others).

 

Listening to the Alchemist version gives you chills.

 

It's phenomenal.

 

It forces you to focus. Its complexity is immense.

 

I'm telling you all of this because last month I ran a wargame with a client, and that wargame had the same result.

 

It addressed an issue with immense complexity.

 

It forced focus.

 

The outcome was phenomenal, in the sense that my client (who is a coaching client) had the kind of realisation that made her entire business come together and make sense. Suddenly she understood what she's doing and why, and how.

 

Everything she's doing, from social media to relating to clients, now has real and intense meaning.

 

But if I told you the actual question that focused the wargame, you'd wonder how on this beautiful blue planet it had such an effect.

 

(No, I'm not going to tell you. Confidentiality is a real thing.)

In any case, wargames are now a thing that I can offer you.

A wargame is a scenario, about 2.5 hours in a whiteboarding session, a whole lot of imagining, questioning, and thinking together. 

A wargame sometimes requires you to do some research ahead of time to prepare.

But it's better than a simple brainstorm. A wargame posits a scenario. It forces you to put yourself in the scenario, to imagine, to think aloud, to examine pros, cons, risks, outcomes. It allows you to include literally everything, to be asked questions and interviewed about the scenario.

And in the process, clarity results.

It's incredible.

So I've decided to offer it out as a service. It fits into our coaching and training services.

Wargaming is a one-off thing for a burning question, a burning issue, a something that you can't solve by yourself.

I know you have a something just like that.

So if you want to access a facilitated wargame, here's what you need to know:

1. It's a Zoom call.
2. It's recorded.
3. It's timed.
4. It's whiteboarded.
5. There is pre-work.
6. It will happen early on a Saturday or Sunday morning, which makes it accessible for those of you in North America and the UK.
7. It will cost you $625 +GST.

 

Please let me know what I can do for you.
 
Leticia Mooney is a consultant with decades of experience writing with and for people like you. Her company Brutal Pixie casts the the kind of spells your customers love. It consults to businesses in content strategy, content writing, ghostwriting, content operations, communication strategy, audits, investigations, training and coaching. Leticia is also the mother of an intelligent, engaging, and curious boy, who is named after a character created by J.R.R Tolkien. You can learn more about her at https://biodagar.com/about, and her business at https://brutalpixie.com.
 
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