Transcript Leadership in World of Warcraft

Leadership in World of
Warcraft
Laura Christopherson
January 23, 2008
Opportunities
• Guild
• GM
• Officer
• Class leader, MT, healer
• Group/party leader
• PvP
• Battleground leader
• Arena team leader
Challenges
• Miscommunication more likely
• Facial expressions and gestures
• Tone of voice
• Shorthand and lingo
• Is everyone on?
• Time zone differences
Challenges
• Demonstrating capacity for leadership
• What they don’t see/experience, they don’t know.
• Trust and competence
• Group culture
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Like-mindedness
Shared goals and practices
Shared communication style
Exemplars in top level
Challenges
• Accidental / ad-hoc leadership
• Inability to exact consequences
Assets
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It’s fun!
It’s always happening.
“Hands-on” practice
A variety of leadership opportunities
Ability to see bad leadership in action as
well as good
• The “virtual” is a new avenue of
experience.
Implementation Ideas
• Form a party/group for quests,
instances
• With other classmates
• With strangers
• PvP
• Form a guild
Evaluation?
• Play with them!
• Weekly play time
• Record chat logs
• Record videos
• Keep diaries
Logistics
• Cost
• WoW base game: ~$20.00
• WoW Burning Crusade expansion: ~$24.00
• Monthly fee: ~$15.00
• System Requirements
• See handout
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