Comments on: The 5 Traits I Want in a Leader http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/ There's no bacon like Holy Bacon Sun, 12 May 2013 07:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3586 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:06:45 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3586 We don’t approve of that word around here. ;D

]]> By: Kimboslice http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3585 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:25:54 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3585 Trying to have a relationship

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3584 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:09:47 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3584 OMG you live! I’d been wondering where you’d vanished to!

]]> By: Kimboslice http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3582 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:23:37 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3582 Basically you want me

and that is totally understandable

]]> By: Ophelie http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3581 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:05:49 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3581 I’d admit I purposely exaggerated my criticism of “don’t do it” a bit. I quoted it in a literal fashion while it often tends to mean “don’t do it unless you’ve sure you want to make this kind of huge commitment, and if you screw it up, you’ll have wasted a lot of time and energy and let a lot of people down.” Which in that context is good advice, no one should start a guild unless they’re dedicated.

Your view of it is one that hadn’t occurred me to all. It makes a lot of sense and its not negative at all.

]]> By: judgeomni http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3580 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:08:25 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3580 What a great read! It is exactly how I feel. Been going thru a tough time in my guild lately. We just got going raiding after 6 months of getting a team together. Now the GM is only on for the raids. Doesnt want to help with anything and really the guild has no direction. 1-2 people on at night we dont raid. Tonight will be the first night of a new raiding leader and I dont have my hopes up since he is the one that made the team almost break up in the first place by wanting to jump in to firelands and leave us behind. What makes it worse is he is the GM’s husband. After all the work we as a team have put in to get a solid group together he wants to leave and just do what he wants. Tonights his chance he is leader now. Some will log once they find out the news.

On the plus side I have made friends with most of the others and we hope to push on somehow. Kind of impossible to form a new guild this late. I will always keep my head up looking for a leader like the one you described that values ones like us that dont mind putting some work into achieving a final goal.

Love your work – Omni

]]> By: Borsk http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3579 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:54:13 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3579 I give the “dont do it” advice often.

But when I give my “don’t do it” advice, it’s in relation to starting a new guild from the ground up. I’ve inherited my guild/raid leading position with well established structure and systems (which I’ve changed many times). Just thought I would clarify for my own sake :P

Leading, like healing or tanking, takes a specific skill set that not many people have. Commanding respect (and returning it), is number one.

]]> By: Quori http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3578 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:48:09 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3578 Perfectly stated and something we should all read as players and gamers. All too often though people cannot filter properly everything you have said and communicated and end up hearing only what they wanted to hear. I find myself all too often saying, “You didn’t listen to ALL of what I said did you.”

Selective hearing is great for parenting; not so much for guild leading.

Keep up the great posts and sharing. Hopefully these are lessons we all learn sooner rather than later!

]]> By: 5 Traits in a Guild Leader at the Bossy Pally « Surviving WoW with Quori http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3577 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:44:21 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3577 [...] should definitely head over and read the full article!!! http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/ Categories: 10 man raid, 25 man raiding, Cataclysm, Guild Management, Raid Management, Warcraft, [...]

]]> By: Susan Reed http://bossypally.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-5-traits-i-want-in-a-leader/#comment-3576 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:27:16 +0000 http://bossypally.wordpress.com/?p=2772#comment-3576 This is a thought-provoking and sensible article. As a former GL, I found that communication is the key – however stellar the leader’s vision may be, however careful & consistent the day-to-day running, it all counts for nothing unless everyone in the guild knows about, and supports it. And that means the newest recruit as well as the seasoned, long-term veteran. And enthusiasm has to filter down from the top and infect every member – whether for raids or fishing :)

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