Effective Business Com 140 (Week 3)

Effective Business Com 140 (week 3)

Manager Teammates Travel Agent

Purpose To inform the department manager(s) that the quarterly financial goal was not met To inform the company coworkers of the department that the quarterly bonus was not met; thus the team will not receive our bonus checks To inform my travel agent that as of this time I will not be able to plan the trip to Europe, but instead plan for a future date

Audience Department Manager(s) Teammates, fulltime and part-time Local travel agent Sarah B.

Tone Negative formal Negative formal Negative informal

Content Hi, Chad,

After the Christmas season the department had a slow start. The department picked up sales for the rest of the quarter, and just missed the quarterly average for receiving our bonuses. I believe next quarter will be more successful than the past one. If anyone in the department has any questions regarding our goals feel free to email me and I will be more than happy to be of any assistance. To my fellow coworkers,

I wanted to thank everyone for working extremely hard this quarter. We as a company have already seen a dramatic increase in profit and sales. Corporate has been monitoring our sales, and as of now we just missed the margin for making bonus this quarter. We as a company were a little slow after Christmas. As spring approaches sales will increase, but remember it takes all of us as a team to pull together. I believe with confidence that our team can surpass our goal next quarter. Hi Sarah,

I hear that Europe is an exceptional place to spend a vacation at this time of year. As of this point of time I am unable to book the flight that we had planned earlier. If it is not too much of a problem can we try to reschedule for maybe the later part of the year?

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