This is part 3 of an article series: Jump to Part 1 or Part 2 Ok, so now we have some idea of how to transfer leadership and have gone into depth on the things that guild leaders do. Now let’s talk about ways to make leadership transitions easier. Even if you’re not going through [...]
Archive for category Guild Management
This is part 2 of an article series: Jump to Part 1 or Part 3 This article might be a bit dry compared to part 1. It’s meant to be an expansion of the things that a GM does, and will (I hope) be useful for a GM planning their retirement or a new GM [...]
Turning Over the Reins
Feb 1
This article was suggested by Veliaf of Imperial Guardsmen. I currently run a small guild in WoW, and have done for several years, but in the near future I’m going to be leaving WoW for a few months (probably until Cataclysm is released). Obviously this means I’ll be stepping down as GM, and this leads [...]
One of the things that has dogged me whenever I’ve been a guild leader is a desire to solve every problem that I am made aware of. Even outside of a leadership position, I tend to internalize every little thing that goes wrong. I have high standards for myself, and when I find myself playing [...]
The Service of Officers
Jan 25
In scrounging the US and EU guild relations forums for inspiration, I came across this post on abuse within the officer ranks. I haven’t quite got enough to say on that particular subject at the moment, but one thing the OP said jumped out at me: All I got in response was him arguing with [...]
Reasonable Expectations
Jan 21
Against my better judgement, I’ve started working on gearing up another of my characters that I abandoned after hitting 80 in the month after the WotLK launch. I’d finished with all of my EoT gear on my Paladin and Shaman, and told myself that I was just going to get exalted with two factions for [...]
Bridging the 10 to 25 Gap
Jan 18
In the post on guild mergers, I talked a little about what to do when you’re trying to expand from a 10 person to 25 person guild. Today, I’d like to expand on that a bit outside of the context of mergers or alliances (the latter of which will be covered in a future post). [...]
