[Planning] Staff Meeting - 5/11/09

Bto edit:

Alright so we have some input from the elites. Now we have to weed out what we won't use, and what we will use.

George Edit: This has been moved down to Level Two so we can get your opinions on the following ideas.
Please remember that these are just IDEAS, not concrete plans.

This was a spontaneous meeting. We managed to get Andrew (for a bit), Saad, Bto, DZ, Darf, and George in this.

Staff - We're slacking to some extent
- EVERYONE needs to do their jobs more efficiently
- Stay Active in event creation
- Bring back the "Abs" plan - Make weekly tasks for leaders - Failure to comply results in a painful death.
- Remaining positive; Don't complain about turnouts. Emphasize the good things.
- Appoint some new staff; See Warring.

Warring
-Back to CWA
- Raid/Warlords need to act; Refer back to Staff Activity.
- George's 3 strike system for raids to increase raid activity
- Assign an Aussie/GMT raid leader - All warring leaders are EST
PLANNED EVENTS
- Less spontaneous raids
- More Matched fights
- Reduction in PKRIs.

Recruitment - Recruitment team is NOT working
- Appoint a new rank for leading recruits?
- RSC is too competative
- Find alternative methods of recruiting

Activity

- George's 3 strike system - Implemented into raids/wars/sign-ups
- Incentives and Recognition as opposed to punishment
- Revice old incentives, improve, and actually make them work (War badges, Guardian score, Hall of Fame etc.)
- Recognition - Little things make a big difference (Praise certain people in IA, Complements, #WG_lobby/#WG topic, etc.); Refer to Staff - Remaining positive.


If you have any questions/concerns/additions, feel free to act. This really was just a brainstorming session; nothing is concrete at the moment.

After, Maybe we should move this down to level two? Theres nothing too valuable that can be shared with the Elites. If anything, our vets are the ones that need to know that we're coming with change.

A good idea would be to create a topic in General Matters/IA forum listing all the planned events for the week. This way members can refer to a single topic rather than having to read several different ones.

Actually I think it would be good to bring it down to level 2. Members want to know what we have planned; this is a prime example of what we need to tell them.

I think it would be good to have a non-staff leader for the Recruitment Team. Gene put me in charge of Recruitment, but having a non-staff would be beneficial to this. If I have any say, I'd like to have Lefty as the liaison because he seems like he'd be willing to put forth the effort needed.

I am currently trying to think of new ways to do recruitment events, but besides running around/public events there isn't much to do in-game as a clan. RSC is tough as well because it's open warfare. The BEST way is really to just strike up conversations with people in-game that meet our requirements.

On the topic of raids, I'd be up for more spontaneous raids because I never get to any except the Aussie raid. I think we should promote someone in the Aussie timezone to Raid Leader that way that area is covered. As it is, we've got one Raid Leader in the American timezone.

Yeah I'm 2 hours behind AEST. I'm in the same timezone as Gene.

Moved down to Level Two!

Since I'm bored I'll address every point I can:

IRC activity can't be solved, because we haven't any aussie/nz staff apart from Gene (who is busy mid-week) and David.
The Abs plan was always up-to-date, he put a great deal of effort into it, and it worked, it was not ineffictive.

Evil, we don't mean PLANNED RAIDS as in.... like weekly set times. Just plan a few days in advance, get sign-ups going perhaps. To raise awareness.

The Recruitment Team was Randy's idea, and it involves all council members, I think some staff too, plus select other members.
A leader is needed for this, to pull it round and into new places.
I suggested that we make the separate rank "Recruitment Leader", this would be assigned to ONE person, that person would become a staff member, with lvl 3 access, but would not be a staff member from the beginning.

I don't think its "sad" that most of our leadership are US.
We have many more US members than we do aussies.

I can lead wars/raids when necessary and have done in the past. I am European. -.-

Are we going to have a skilling sector?

Goals must be measurable, otherwise they are just wishes. How much of an improvement in attendance do you want?

If you want to encourage attendance with positive things than you can't punish for non-attendance.

I strongly recommend backing off on dictating to the members how they should fight when we are going to war or raid. Recommending what a fighter should try to do is great. But please let the members, who show up, choose to fight with the style they feel they are best at. We have plenty of members who are skilled at swtiching between styles. We don't need everyone doing it. I think a lot more will show up, if they feel they have a chance at survival. And it won't sound like you want them bringing all their stuff so you can pick it up when they die.

And the TS, I know I speak for more than myself when I say, it is not fun to listen to our "Leaders" have fun, with talk and banter. You really make the rest of us feel like (pardon my language) SHIT! And you don't do yourselves any favors either. It can be disgusting to have to listen to. I know you know that you can have fun with out being disgusting. Not everyone thinks your body parts and what you do or do not want to do with them is funny.

Now on a more positive note: Congratulations to the new council members. I wish all of you good fortune. And am more than willing to help. Especially at any tasks that are behind the scenes. I actually like working on the forum.

Also if you give me at least a days notice, I can make everything except rune items. I am working on my smithing. But anything and everything else I can make. My cost to you is only the raw materials. And in some cases not even that.

WG

I didn't David.
I'm just saying leaders are indeed humans... members do this just as frequently as leaders do... because believe it or not we're all human

Okay, after talking to a council member today I have been asked to expand on this:

I don't like the irc because:
1) I use the RS client to play in and have SK open frequently make me lag.
2) With all the aliases in use, I never know who is who. (I wish we could just use a recognizable part of our RS name with our real name, i.e. Starz|Kristy or when the ops need it Gorge|Sleeping. These are useful and informative.) The way it is now, if someone wants to misbehave they change their name to something weird and have a go at it.
3) And yes, I have not been in the irc much, as per reason 1 and 2.

Again you know I love each and everyone of you. This is not an attack, just a narrative of what I see and hear, when I am in the room.

And Evil is right, usually when I am online there are no ops in the irc.
WG

Technically having part of your RSN, or something that is recognizable to the person is a rule for the IRC? I remember reading that somewhere, maybe we can just enforce that more?

I try to be in the IRC as often as I can as well, since I'm really the only person in the Aussie timezone.

Starz,

There is a rule about the nicknames in IRC. However, there is also a way to check who they are registered as well. It is in the same little box where you huggle and smack with the fish. This might be helpful to you.

JC

That was my quote and I think you and Zemus would be good for those type op position. I hope it is just appointed as needed. I can see why forum moderation might be useful to these people as well. If there is a real issue on the forum I usually pm council. They can then move or edit it.

Gene really needs his rl time right now and we can all help out. I'll keep a watch out with new members so they have friends in the clan. Just them feeling welcomed and like they fit in will keep our intros with WG.

Alright so we got our input. Now we need to act.

Things I think we need to implement immediately:

- Bring back the "Abs" plan; seriously, staff needs to step up. We shouldn't even need to do this.

How are we going to do this? Who is going to make the order of the week?

- Adding George's 3 strike system for raids to increase raid activity
http://www.wildernessguardians.com/forum/i...showtopic=10490

How are we going to monitor activity?

Monitoring activity-
Checking attendances of events and seeing the people who aren't going. If they are IRC active-They're skipping and stuffs.

Can I be the strict S.O.B?

If we can get an actually system of what people can get punished for and how badly they can get punished I'll gladly spearhead that. I'm all about punishment and discipline.

S.O.B?

FOCUS.

So when do we start implementing it?

I think that all of us should be the "S.O.B". I think we should all be looking out for things that are punishable. What we will need though are guidelines, like what DZ said.

I wasn't really around for the "Abs" plan, but from what I understand it's basically a weekly schedule for the Council/Tertiaries?

I think if we get the members in shape, then everything will sort of fall into place. With an active memberbase, Event Leaders will start hosting more events because people will actually come. Likewise with Raid Leaders. A huge part of why we're not "pulling our weight" is because we know the turnout will be crap.