And third if the message has been anticipated many employees will skip the introduction.

Example of negative memo. The revised version in Figure 918 would be more effective. One indirect approach for negative messages example is saying please dress in business casual wear on Fridays instead of dont wear jeans on casual Fridays. Send a note to your customer saying you can pick up your merchandise on Monday rather than your order wont be.

A memo may be addressed to a colleague or supervisor in a law firm known as an in-house memo. This usually outlines the legal issues in a clients case and your assessment of that situation in relation to the current law. In the memo in Figure 917 a supervisor informs an employee that he the employee has done a poor job.

When writing a negative memo it is generally best to get to the bad news right away. We were there but they werent and at a considerable waste of our time. If there is no action taken once the audience has read your memo then it is utterly pointless to have even posted something like that in the first place.

Executive Summary Memo Format. Draft a memo explaining this scenario to your 150 employees. Your Supervisor Include any others on this list to whom this memo should be addressed From.

Mike Gonzalez Finance Officer. Deliver the bad news in a timely fashion in the appropriate channel s. Executive Memo in PDF.

Work literally ground to a halt while. 1 The following example is problematic for several reasons. For example if you announcing a holiday consider including the name in the subject line.