Defining Knight Expectations

OK, now that we have Squire Expectations, let's talk about Knight Expectations.  Everything that Squire is plus what.  

Take a look at Ratch's post which is good and lets bring it down to some Bullet points.  Let's focus on what we want to do and are willing to do.

https://lightness.forumotion.com/t5741-officer-expectations-edited

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OK... Here we go!  I have taken into account everything people have written.  I have tried to boil it down into some bullet points.  If I have overlooked something, please let me know.  If you can see a way to edit my statements and make them more clear/concise, let me know.  If you feel something is unnecessary, too much to ask, or too broad; let me know.


Knights Expectations


First, a Knight must meet all of the expectations for Squire.  Knights will be selected from the ranks of Squires.

Squire Expectations wrote:
Squire:            You are seen talking in Guild Chat regularly. 
                        ... are friendly and helpful to other members.
                        ... start/join parties with other guild members (dungeons/map events/WvW/PvP).
                        ... are not always picky about who can join your parties (Teach).
                        ... participate in guild events/games.
                        ... are a regular participant in Voice-chat (at least once a week other than Guild Missions).
                        ... represent AoL most of the time (~90%).
                        ... are registered on our forum (lightness.forumotion.com).
                        ... have introduced yourself on the forum and participate in threads (Min. Level 1, 10 posts).

In addition to the expectations of Squire, Knights will be expected to:

You Keep the peace in Guild Chat and Teamspeak.  (reprimanding or removing problem members)
...Keep reprimands in whisper whenever possible.  No need to embarrass someone unnecessarily. 
...Take initiative for decisions about members.  Not every decision needs to be discussed in committee. 
...Bring concerns about members, that you are not sure how to handle, to the Lords or Guild Leader.
...Are honest and open with guild members.  We are not a secret society.  Only issues marked confidential or sensitive in nature should be withheld from regular members.
...Take ownership of duties required to operate an efficient guild.  (Recruiting, Repping, Events, etc...) (come up with your own)
...Take pride in helping others.  No officer of AoL should begrudge helping members.  Officers enjoy helping new people.  (That does not mean you have to drop everything and go running all the time.)
...Are patient and kind.
...Groom members for promotion to Squire.  Convince them to get on TS and the forum.  Help them to become the kinds of members we want to play with.
...Assist in the decision making process for matters concerning the guild by posting well thought out responses to issues raised by other officers within a week of the original posting.  
...Set yourself a minimum weekly recruiting goal and do your best to meet it.

Knights need to be leaders, we should all be trusted and set examples for other members. Knights should be knowledgeable to answer any question about general gameplay or should have a desire to expand their knowledge to get to that point.

Every officer should have at least one niche they can share with the rest of the guild, whether this be dungeons, fractals, jumping puzzles, map exploration, world bosses, structured PvP, WvW, or anything else I couldn't think of when I posted this.

Ratche emphasized protected discussions among officers. I think we should expect a level of competence and maturity in officers that would make this emphasis unnecessary.

I agree with Kainis on this- although I can be obnoxious ahah but also provide a good example as well when representing the guild, if not with our members; i.e being a pug in a dungeon group. Don't want to provide a bad name for the guild by being an ass

Let's give this topic one more week.  Also, see Midway's advice in the Round Table.  He makes a lot of good points.  Please, reply soon.

We can also discuss it in tonight's officer meeting.

I like the way Midway defined Officer's in his post. things should have been handled like that all along imo. And of course Kainis makes some great points. i don't really know what more i would add to the list though.

I don't know what I could add to what has already been said.

Well, I don't have much to go on here.  I'll look things over and see what I can come up with.

Can rename zombie to Maester or w/e and make it the loyalty rank

Sorry I can see any of Kilander's post on my wife's tablet. It's grey and white font on a grey background. I Will check again later from my computer

Sounds about right.

Looks good to me.

No issues with it.

I have posted the expectations for Knight.  We can still discuss editing them, but this topic has been open for three weeks now.  It is time to move on.

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party... I've got a few questions/comments:

The Beau Brothers wrote:...Keep reprimands in whisper whenever possible.  No need to embarrass someone unnecessarily. 
...Are honest and open with guild members.  We are not a secret society.  Only issues marked confidential or sensitive in nature should be withheld from regular members.

These two in my opinion are kind of contradicting each other a bit... I see where you're going but we're talking about being open but keep things private in the same paragraph. Also what is the definition of "confidential or sensitive in nature" exactly? I take it that almost anything posted under Officers or Lords sections meets the criteria or else it would be posted in the general section of the forums. Am I correct?

The Beau Brothers wrote:...Take ownership of duties required to operate an efficient guild.  (Recruiting, Repping, Events, etc...) (come up with your own)

I agree with that in the sense that "don't wait to be told to do something to do it"... No one should really own anything just by deciding so, we've had issues with it in the past.

The Beau Brothers wrote:...Assist in the decision making process for matters concerning the guild by posting well thought out responses to issues raised by other officers within a week of the original posting.

Good with that only with an exception made if the officer has made it known he/she was going to be away for some time

The Beau Brothers wrote:...Set yourself a minimum weekly recruiting goal and do your best to meet it.

It's always good to have targets. But I think people recruited and tagged "guild mission" should be excluded from said target.

I see what you are saying, but reprimanding an individual is something that I would consider sensitive or confidential. Unless, they have gone so far beyond tolerable limits that they need to be called out publicly. We had a member recently that needed to be addressed publicly a few times. He left on his own fortunately.

I would be happy to discuss most of the topics in the Officers Round Table in the regular Round Table. To me, they are not secret conversations. They are just topics that are boring clerical type business. They are not relevant to the general game play of regular members, until a decision has been made. I'd be happy to discuss all of them in the open. It just seems unnecessary.

When I think of sensitive or confidential, it would be topics related to the fate of an individual, or topics where heated discussion may arise. The parts of the conversation that are disagreeable should be confidential, but the main points should be open for discussion with everyone. This is something that I disagreed strongly with the previous administration on. I did not like the secrecy at all.