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Leadership Development Series
Module 4 - Promoting Yourself as a Leader

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1. You recently wrote a story that led to e-mails from newspaper readers praising both your investigative skills and your sensitivity. You want to share these messages with your colleagues and supervisor. What is the best way to do this?

A.  Send an e-mail to the reporters on your beat, attaching all the e-mails you received, explaining that you received this positive feedback from the community and wanted to share it with them.

B.  Share your ideas with a colleague who says she is having trouble coming up with resources for a related story. Mention to her that you received positive feedback from the community and offer to show her specific comments.

C.  Share the feedback at a group meeting, leaving it to your colleagues to ask for more information. Also send an e-mail with all the community feedback to your supervisor, asking that it be made a part of your personnel file.

2. You are assigned to cover a story with two colleagues, Tara and Alicia. Both enthusiastically accept your idea on the angle for the story. The article turns out very well and your editor calls the three of you together for a congratulatory meeting. In the meeting, the editor says, I understand the turning point came when Alicia suggested the angle for the story. That made all the difference. You are furious that Alicia is getting credit for your good idea. What do you do?


A.  Immediately say, "What? That was my idea!"

B.  Ask Alicia to meet you for coffee. Confront her about what the editor said and tell her that you are very upset. Tell her that you are going to correct the editor's misconception about who came up with that idea; however, you wanted to speak with her first to give her the opportunity to tell the editor first or join you in approaching the editor.

C.  You ask Tara to go with you to speak with the editor and straighten out the matter.

3. Joe sits near you in the newsroom. He constantly makes sexual innuendoes and tells sexually oriented jokes that offend you. You see everyone else laughing at his jokes. What do you do?


A.  Ask Joe if you can speak with him privately. Explain how you feel when he makes sexual references and jokes. Tell him that you notice others seem to enjoy them, but you don't. Ask him to confine his comments to times when you are not around.

B.  Tell your supervisor that you find Joe's behavior offensive and that you want to file a formal complaint against him.

C.  Ask for cooperation from your colleagues in the newsroom in approaching Joe about his behavior. Explain that you want their support in asking Joe to refrain from this behavior and in complaining to the supervisor.


  

 

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