Problem
You and Travis from the sales department have been working on a presentation about a large and important client, due by Friday this week. Your supervisor will present your work to the board of directors. Travis is responsible for gathering data related to the customer, while you are responsible for transforming his data into presentation slides. Accidentally, Travis has collected the data from a wrong document - which caused you to produce 30 inaccurate slides (around a day's work). Your manager is counting on the presentation to be ready on time for the weekend meeting. What is the most effective response?*
i. Tell the supervisor that you and Travis made an error while building the presentation from the data. Modify the inaccurate slides accordingly with the help of Travis
ii. Don't tell the supervisor about the mistake. Hand him notes with some corrections to include while presenting the presentation
iii. Explain to the supervisor that Travis has made an error gathering the data- which can cause a delay in the presentation. Ask Travis politely if he could amend the mistake- as it was mostly his doing
iv. No need to bother the supervisor with this. You should talk to Travis about modifying the inaccurate slides as soon as possible.