two & a half gamers honest interviews #3 - Sophie Vo (How to motivate your team?)

Welcome dear listener! This is a 2.5 gamers podcast with an honest interviews segment #3. Asking tough questions, having fun and dropping some knowledge with gaming industry peeps.

Sophie Vo & Matej Lancaric

Youtube: https://youtu.be/gIWQSCVvz6g

Agenda

0:00 Intro

2:50 Masterclass definition

6:55 Rise & Play showcasing female leaders

10:15 How did Sophie measure podcast KPIs? 

13:10 Team motivation - How to approach that?

21:50 What are the clues of low motivation? 

22:54 How to motivate people in the current market conditions?

26:10 Thought process of joining Voodoo from Rovio

29:30 Should you speed up hiring process?

32:50 How to kill a game properly? 

38:20 Do your homework before killing a game

40:00 Model situation

Model situation:

We have a game in soft launch, our KPIs are really close to our goals. But not quite there yet. We just released the new version with our last feature. The KPIs still did not meet goals. What should we do? Why?

44:50 Sophie taking some time off

46:00 What keeps Sophie up at night? 

47:30 Favourite book & why?

https://www.amazon.com/15-Commitments-Conscious-Leadership-Sustainable-ebook/dp/B00R3MHWUE 

Rapid quiz

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