Assignment- Email Based on Listening Skills Scenario

Your supervisor has asked to you write a brief email on the vacation policy changes to be distributed to staff. You will need to listen to a voice mail from your supervisor with instructions on how to create the email to announce the new vacation policy. The voice mail will include specific details that must be followed in creating the email. This audio voice mail can be found in your course shell.

Create an email message in which you:

1. Listen to your supervisor’s voice mail here.
2. Create a one to two (1-2) paragraph email with five to seven (5-7) sentences that follows your supervisor’s instructions.  
3. Target the appropriate professional audience.
4. Use appropriate language for professional audience.
5. Use correct email formatting.
6. Follow appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication.
7. Meet the 250-to-500-word minimum requirement.
8. Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

Your assignment must follow these APA formatting requirements:

• Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Demonstrate understanding of the basic fundamentals of communication.
• Develop and practice communication skills, including skills in verbal, nonverbal, listening, writing, interpersonal, perception, and critical thinking as appropriate for the audience.
• Use various electronic communication platforms in their academic and professional work.
• Relate to the interpersonal and organizational dynamics that affect communication in organizations.
• Analyze and assess effective communication.
• Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in communications.
• Write clearly and concisely about communications using proper writing mechanics.

REad supervisor voicemail- in order to complete paper

Hi Sam,

This is your supervisor Ron Miller calling I learned in this morning management meeting that several changes have been made to company’s vacation policy. I am calling to alert you              to the new vacation policy and the new regulations being implemented. In the new vacation policy employees with three or less years of service will now have a full week of paid vacation. Employees that have between 3 and 5 years of service will now have two full weeks of paid vacation while employees with 5 years or more of service will be offered 3 full weeks of vacation. In accordance, with this new policy employees must now submit a vacation request at least one month prior to the vacation date. Employees are also required submit a vacation to their direct supervisor keep in mind though no more than two employees in any one department can be on vacation at the same time. Since these policy updates are being implemented soon I need for you to write and send a notification email to our department members about these policy changes. In your email please address all the vacation policy changes I have shared with you and make sure to use the correct email format as you work on this. I would also like for you to follow the appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication and ensure that your email is one or two paragraph length and meets the 250 to 300 word minimum. If you can have this email written and sent out today that would be fantastic thank you for taking care of this for our department and have a great day.