Rasmus, from Sweden, 23 years old involved in computers and leadership entire life, had leading role, former football player, team captain
Started playing games when he was 2 years old, dad worked in IT, played competitive for 6-8 years give or take, various games. Not competitive anymore, putting effort into work instead of into playing. BDO most recent one, two world records, still unbeaten, rank 1, 2 and 3 in all the pve content in europe and NA. 10 man pve content.
PLayed another game called skyfort for a while, achieved west first for three different pve content, was the guildmaster and strategic guy, with no guides or information available. Game was released earlier in russia and korea, so taught himself korean and russian to understand the guides. Brought the best together and managed them as their leader.
Competitive since he was a kid, wasn’t able to play a game without being competitive, same as in football when he was 5 years old. Always want to be the best.
Master of spreadsheets, a lot of preparation and creation of guides for all content. Structures his work still.
Hasn’t studied leadership, only from gaming and from self-studying.
Differs across of games, checks what has been working best in the past. Studied russian guilds composition and copied what they did and adapted playstyle to that comp. Switched himself out because he didn’t play what was best for the encounter.
Leader of 170-180 people in BDO, in elder scrolls it’s only 15-20. In smaller games prefer the player, not the class. In bigger groups the class is more important. Set a pool of acceptable classes first. Tries to make other people enjoy themselves first of all, so people don’t go elsewhere.
He usually knows things in more detail than other team members, which means that team members don’t understand. He uses common things to make it more understandable. Renames them to more relatable things, like the “green arrow”. Tries to be clear, annoying to people who already know it. Not too detailed.
Uses mostly spreadsheets. And of course voice communication. Uses spreadsheets to organize himself. Shows pictures from spreadsheets that only focuses on the important parts. He creates google forms and uses the information from there, instead of having people create their own spreadsheets.
Used drawn maps for possible enemy locations in BDO, images of all kinds are used a lot.
A combination of studying other tactics and what works best for our own group. Studied a NA team, to find out what they were doing to make them so good. Had entire group go assassin but with magic gear, which caused them to be healers and dps at the same time. Went 9 dps 1 tank instead of 1 tank 3 healers 6 dps.
Values input from team members extremely highly, note it down and always make sure to get back to them.
Doesn’t always take up new ideas in an open forum, depends on how the feedback was given. Privacy is also important.
While playing BDO, he had 3 out of 5 regional castles, they encountered something he had never seen before.
Twice as many people came to contest, almost 1.000 people against 100 of us. Couldn’t defend everything, so had to pick and choose what was best. Had to split up entire group and make a split second decision on what was the best choice. The choice was not what everyone liked, but it turned out to be the best decision in the end.
He had to stand up for his own decision even though it was not popular, because he knew it was the right decision. Vast knowledge of everything allowed him to make the best decision for the group even though the
group didn’t understand it at the time. It was only achievable because he knew every single member on a personal level, he knew first names of everyone in the guild.
Using previous experience is a very good way of solving problems. People will recognize the solution and will have an easier time learning the new mechanics if they can use the same solution as previously.
In almost every single game he goes in with the attitude that he wants to achieve something which is unique or which hasn’t done before. World first, europe firsts, west firsts. Getting recognized is just a bonus, usually never tell people unless they ask. Actions are stronger than words
People are comfortable around him, thinks that part of it is because he spend a lot of time studying leadership and psychology, and helped 10-15 people in BDO with issues that they had on a personal level.
Generally wants to take the responsibility himself, but right now he is actually trying not to. He usually pushes for a leadership position regardless of if he wants or not.
In BDO got sandwiched between two enemy team, we were 100, they were 180. The raid leader couldn’t lead at the time (was sick), asked Caph to do it. Hadn’t tried pvp raid leading before, so it was a completely new situation for him. He had seen other people raid lead and analyzed what he thought they did good and what they did bad, and applied the ideas that he liked. It turned out very good and they actually won the fight. New issues are always connected to other issues or situations in some ways, nothing is ever completely new. He feels that he performed well. If you want to win we have to work as a team, appeals to their interest. It makes him perform better when he is pressured and he taught the previous raid leaders.
The two previous examples are both examples of things he is proud of.
He reaches goals by spending his time extremely efficiently in the game. Even if you have 10 hours, spending them efficiently changes a lot, like watching a movie on the second screen or watching something useful instead. Studies warcraftlogs for the classes and creates spreadsheets for which bosses to bonus roll. Use knowledge and time effectively. Makes sure to take notes so he doesn’t have to study the same thing twice.
Progressing on mythic bosses, usually keeps his mouth shut for a couple failures, because he doesn’t want to push for a leadership position. After a couple of wipes, he is almost walsy the guy to point out the issues. ALso speaks up when someone is actually incorrect, when you do that in a nice way it’s usually appreciated except for the guy who is getting called out.
Proud of the fact that his ignore list is empty, because when stuff like this comes into play it’s almost always driven by emotion. You cannot counter those arguments that are driven by emotions. Usually handles it quite well by silencing them through actual fact, he can prove people wrong by fact. Usually never gets in to issues, usually most people like you.
People ask him for advice because of the problem solving and advice, he pushes for improvement and things that are better. If you play with someone for 10 hours or more and you realize that person is always kind to others and never condescending or biased and can solve problems and provide a reasonable solution without pushing emotional opinions. That person becomes highly sought after for advice, thats why people come to me.
People tell him they never met someone so efficient adn organized, they want to learn. They know he shows interest also in them and their well-being. Knows people on a personal level. He gets to know people instead of just their online alias, which is appealing to people.
Monitors progress through logging systems, in WoW they are available, but in other games he has created these systems himself. By combining the statistics of different people he can create a continuous line and he can show people the progress over weeks. Also always compares himself to competitors! Always!
Motivates team mates by appealing to their interests. I don’t believe in the idea of jst trying for 40 wipes.
Always trying to overcome some kind of problem, every boss fight, every pvp fight, theres always a problem.
Have to think on how do overcome the problem. Focus on the solution. A lot of people miss that point. “Can’t do coven mythic because we have 10 melee” is the wrong way to think.
Started on a new game after clearing all content, to stay motivated to play. Has in-between games that he plays in between so he doesn’t get bored. Put a lot of effort into different conent, switched to pvp and applied the skills from that pvp to become better in pve. And gave himself more free time to study the things that interest him both inside and outside the game.
Appealing to their own interest, appealing to something that they can relate to, when playing with all kind of cultures and ages. They need to see you as an authority without you telling them that you are an authority.
Still have a lot of influence in the game’s he is playing. He is new in his current guild, but if you continuously provide input, people start listening to you and see that what you say makes sense and they start listening to you even more.
Communication style depends on the situation. In raiding he has a more supportive style, to be successful he should only provide overall advice and people need to react accordingly. If they can’t they need to be taught.
However in some situations they need to follow direct orders. Especially true in PVP environment. Through communication that he led in BDO, no mandatory voice communication. When you have to write stuff out you have to do it in an effective matter.
Highly organized, highly effective, humble, tries to find actual and real interest in people. Working with a colleague who wanted to switch to a new company, there was a problem and a solution, she could do something about it. You have the opportunity and you sit here and complain about it, she’s gonna hate me if I say that, so I tell her the one thing that we have in common; I’m also not fond of selling. “Yeah sales and stuff is not really that fun” Tries to find common ground. Showing genuine interest in other people, when you play so much with other people. Ask what happened when people are late to games etc. and you get to know people more, and keep asking what the problems they have are. People start trusting you.
Everytime I fuck up I start hating myself so much, so when someone else tells me I usually get really angry. I hate screwing up and I will do everything to make sure that doesn’t happen again. BOth fucking up mechanics or saying something to someone that hurts them. Don’t dwell over my weaknesses, knows that his weaknesses are his problem, and has a list over them. Looks at the list very often so that he doesn’t forget about them, so he can turn them around and make them into strengths.
Its very difficult online, but he tries to, especially difficult if people don’t talk. Allows people to speak their mind and deal with their questions/opinions. If I can answer it I know that I have fact behind it. They always know that they get the truth right now or I will delay my answer so that it is a correct answer.
The most free guild where you could do anything you wanted and everything you said had importance. From the outside it was seen as heaven. Behind the scenes he usually made every single decision, he made it look like every decision was a democratic decision. They didn’t have to know the exact details.
When in a leadership position he has to rely on his team mates in some way, but he still looks and is prepared to help out if they fail. But he needs to believe in them, otherwise they won’t feel that i believe in them as a player, and they will start losing trust and think that I believe that I’m a better player than them, which is really bad as a leader.
When switching guilds he actually did it without talking to his teammates, because it was hindering his personal progress. Recently decided to switch class, and he has done a lot of research on what is good and bad. To play fire effectively he needs to have more effective pulls, it would require overall structure of the group. Instead he switched class to boomkin, because they have steady overall DPS and battle res and similar cooldowns. Thats a decision he made without consulting the team, because he already knew that it would be better. Last night he actually asked what the team thought about the decision, and they all said that it was the right call.
Usually competitors can put you in another gear, the people I play with want to push that record as well. I can’t tell them that I want them to be faster, but I can show them that these other guys are ahead, and that will make them push harder. Still keeping focus if you are ahead, it’s the exact same thing but opposite, tell teammates to keep up or we will get surpassed by them.
Primarily blue, calmness and analytics. Don’t care about emotions and those kind of things. People view me as a soulless person. Somewhere between a green and a yellow person, calm and neutral and relating to everyone but loud and sharing, keeping everyone happy and nice. Fourth situation is a red person, pushing for something serious and knows that my knowledge is better than others, have very distinct goals that I push for.
Can be creative thinking when trying to overcome problems. But not in a decorative artistic sense.
Working for Capgemini as cyber security consultant, when he had interviews I spent 30-40% of those interviews talking about games. They were sidepoints but what he was talking about the most was how he could take what he has learned from gaming and put into the business world. They showed extreme interest in the leadership point of view of it. At the end the interviewer said “wow, you have more leadership knowledge than a lot of my colleagues”.
Not a leader in real life right now, but is responsible for a project and is responsible for one person right now which is under me.