The Big Break Kathryn was seven months into the job and hot. She was working flat-out learning as she went and loving it. The TV and radio station had given her a break, letting an untrained junior in on the ground floor and she was showing them that they hadn't been wrong.
She had even wrangled a brief interview with the prime minister as he made a whistle-stop swing through the smaller northern communities.
That gutsy move had gotten her airplay across the region, as other stations picked up her story. When a TV station in a nearby city aired the
clip, their news director phoned Kathryn and asked her to come for an interview.
This was a big market station, and they were shortlisting for an on-air reporter's slot and they were interested in her. This was pretty big stuff.
Reporters had used this station as a stepping-stone to national TV careers. She bounced the idea off more experienced colleagues and friends.
While they agreed she had come a long way, the consensus seemed to be, "You're not ready." "My mentors thought I might crash and burn,"
remembers Kathryn. She had a short time to think it over
The news director was waiting to know if she would be there for the interview. What would you do?
Use the decision making process to answer this question. Explain the problem, identify alternatives, then decide which is the best option for
you