In this
morning segment four women talk about recent local and international news and
stories people wish to share to others. From the living room the show actually
looks like all fun and play. The show brings people together and inform on a
daily basis about current situations that are happening around the world and
especially on the island. I had the opportunity of interviewing the artists’
manager for this project. Nadine Suarez manages these fabulous women who host
and go on the air every morning for the public. She has explained briefly what
it is that she does and how she is able to do it. Basically she coordinates and
is on top of every single detail of the artist. From the moment the artist
wakes up in the morning to the moment they got o sleep at night, she is the
girl that deals with everything and everybody for the artist, while the artist
go on the air, are interviewed and even eat. It sounds like an exhausting job,
but for those who love to be tight up with things to do all the time is
perfect.
Nadine gave me the
opportunity to sit down and chat with her over a coffee break in the studio.
She explained how she deals with negotiations regularly and that she finds them
to be completely normal in her current professional field. Nadine could not go
into many details of the negotiations she has in the artist’s name, but did
explain one circumstance that did happen to her once while negotiating an
international matter for her artist. The artist was looking forward to attend
an event in the United States, where she would be able to interview some
victims to a horrible kidnapping. This brought a lot of disturbance in some
local news in the state, because she would be taking their time. Nadine says
that the most difficult part of this negotiation was when discussing who could
be interviewed and who could not. In this situation the network and manager
worked towards mutual benefit when negotiating the deal. The agreement circled
around the airtime each interviewee had for the segment. They agreed the piece
would be no more than 20 minutes. This was mutually beneficial because they had
the same amount of time to construct a segment. The difference would be then in
the style the material would be presented in each and every show or news
broadcast.
Nadine did tell me about
her contract agreement negotiation with the artist she currently manages. At first
she was recruited directly by the channel. She was not really interested in
having a job at a TV studio; still she went to a job interview and negotiated a
position. What happened was that she was offered a position that was not really
available and she noticed that they were trying to fool her into considering a
filling position instead of what really was the job. She noticed there were
other people already doing he job she had been offer and that what they really
needed was somebody on the side that responded to any type of request. Thanks
to the objective criteria she learned in her previous job at another local TV
channel broadcasting studio, nobody could trick her into taking a job that
would not benefit her. When she was leaving the studio, she came across the
artist she currently manages and made a very brave and bold move. She asked the
artist for five minutes she would never regret. The artist agreed and was
mesmerized by Nadine’s qualities and ability to make everything look easy. The
artist then asked her to join her after the show for lunch to discuss a
contract.
Nadine Suarez had been
given a once in a lifetime opportunity. In Nadine’s artist contract agreement
there were some boundaries established that made the process really easy and
fair for both parties. The artist admired how Nadine had handled the interview
at the studio and saw great potential in her ethics. Nadine worked her
arguments around why she manages artists and persuaded the artist with her
qualities and pride in why she manages artists. The artist liked every single
detail and possibility she saw in Nadine and decided to make an offer. Nadine’s
personal tip for every single negotiator in negotiations is to say all that has
to be said and play as fair as you can so can the problems be solved fast and
easy. She said that in this particular negotiation both parties separated the
people from the problem by always expressing their concerns and options. This
way the negotiation not only went by faster but also the process would be
easier.
The world is full of
endless possibilities and we should be able to deal with them when the time is
right. Nadine Suarez had one of this days where all you need to do is be the
best you can be and as best as you can. In these situations we can learn much
of why sometimes negotiations take certain directions and why sometimes they do
not. A negotiation is a process that needs to undergo certain changes. Her
experiences teach us how we can deal with these types of negotiations and even
how to evade problems and persuade correctly the other parties.
