Ok, I am in a guild where I have both my 70 hunter and 70 priest. I play them frequently enough for them both to be considered "mains". A while back, I was the Class Leader for our guild's hunters. The guild ended up getting quite a few hunters, so I offered to head up the priest class, which needed help. So I was moved from hunter Class Leader to priest Class Leader.
Now, after several months of my replacement hunter CL being active, our Guild Leader is not happy with his performance (after discussing this with him many times), and I have been asked to step back into the role. I accepted. I do like the previous CL as a person, but the hunters in our guild were not developing very well, which was sad to see.
First of all, if you were in his position, how would you feel about me? How would you act? I plan on treating him like the same person/player that I have always liked. I expect that he will be angry and some of that will reflect towards me, but I am going to try and not take it personally. Basically how would you handle this situation if you were me?
For the most part, in our guild the class leader roles do the following:
Attend guild meetings to talk with other class leaders and our Guild Leader regarding guild progression in raiding, PVP or Arena groups we've formed, basically any type of issue that may be neeeded to be addressed .. or how we can help one another.
We manage our individual classes by assisting people with questions, or concerns, keeping a constant feedback to make sure that each person feels comfortable and happy with their position in the guild. (I personally keep an ongoing dialogue with my assigned class to find out which people prefer which specs, what they enjoy doing most in the game (pve/pvp)and I try to help them achieve what makes the game fun for them - as well as good for the guild) We also make it a point to rotate people in and out of raid groups based upon each individual's effort towards making the guild stronger, as well as determining which individuals may need certain gear from different places. If someone has a question that I don't know the answer to, I will find it.
I'm not a number cruncher, and I don't know everything, but I can manage people reasonably well. I'm not a push over, but I do think that happy guildies makes for a fun game and good guild progression. Self centered loot whores will not get very far.
So I'm asking for feedback from the rest of the hunters out there. What do YOU think constitutes a good Class Leader? Do you have any examples of good leadership? Bad leadership? I'm looking to learn from the rest of you .. maybe there's something out there I can learn from that I haven't come across already.
Edited, Jan 1st 2008 5:09am by wildsimian