Description
It is vital in the world of business and professional communication to be transparent, both internally and externally. This transparency includes sharing positive messages of your ongoing projects with superiors.
You have just secured a significant contract with a large company (you may choose the company). You will need to effectively communicate this development to your superior via email. You must convey that there will be an entire team at your company dedicated to the successful integration of this account into your companys culture.
You will need to ensure that your message is professional and that it accomplishes the following:
- Utilizes the audience focus addressed in the audience profile assignment.
- Informs your superior of the positive news/the most important information.
- Gives background, details, and clarification of what it will mean for your company.
- Presents all information with a positive emphasis.
- Explains benefits.
- Uses a goodwill ending: positive, personal, and forward-looking.
Your email should also include an informative and positive subject line, a clear and concise organizational pattern (see Ch. 9), and end with an electronic signature.
Audience
- Option 1 Primary: Your superior
Assignment Components & Expectations
- Utilize your research from the audience profile to identify the primary audience.
- Demonstrate awareness of audiences other than the primary.
- Include all information needed by the audience.
- Analyze and apply audience benefits, including audiences other than the primary.
- Use of positive emphasis, goodwill, and you-attitude.
