Description
- Helping Your Boss Promote Mindfulness:You’re a management major on co-op with a large customer-data company. Your company sells technology that collects detailed records of what customers buy, at what price, and when, and then crunches those data to help companies improve their revenue. The employees include computer engineers, salespeople, client consultants, customer support staff, technicians, and professionals in other business areas.
You’ve been assigned to various areas of the company to “learn your chops,” so to speak, and you’re currently reporting to Jennifer Sachs, the director of communications. One of Jennifer’s duties is to work with the president to write the script for his monthly video to the employees. Jennifer has been coming across more and more articles about the detrimental effects of multitasking and the benefits of focused, “mindful” work, so she thinks she’ll recommend that the president’s next talk be on this subject. That’s where you come in. “See what you can find out about mindfulness on the job,” she asks you. “Find out what it means, how to have it, what its benefits are, who’s practicing it.”
Do the research and then write Jennifer a report answering her (and the president’s) likely questions and helping them see what approach to take to this topic in the video.
Send your memo report to your boss, Jennifer Sachs, as an email attachment to a transmittal message.
Format
Remember these tips as you compose your short report:
Organize your information in an easy-to-read memo report.
Short Report:
This will be the memo report attached to your e-mail.
You will compose in memo format – Follow heading format as it appears on page 449 of your text.
Design a business logo for the top of the memo that is related to the business in your chosen prompt. Type Memo Report underneath the logo.
Your first page will be your transmittal message in e-mail format. An example of a transmittal in letter format is on page 438.
An e-mail message to your boss
Length will be ½ to 1 Page
E-Mail Format - From:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Keep in mind your reader’s interests and the purpose for the information. The report will probably be about two – four pages, although it may be more depending on the amount of information you include.
Avoid overly casual language, explain well, since the report will be read by your boss and may be passed on to other supervisors or executives.
Decide how to carefully organize the information in a functional, helpful way with appropriate headings for each section of the report. You may use bulleted lists or other graphic aids, such as graphs, charts, or pictures, if they will help present the information concisely and clearly. Chapter 4 of your textbook includes many tips on using visuals.
Remember that when memos are more than one page, you should use continuation-page headings, BCOM textbook, page 83.
Keep all information accurate and up-to-date!
Research
Please follow these guidelines for your informal short report:
Use Chicago Style (Notes-Bibliography) Format
Use at least three
Do not forget to cite sources within your report using citation footnotes
Sample Solution