Practice drafting an external email using the scenario below. Remember to consider the audience, purpose, and tone when planning your message as well as organization and format.
Exercises
Activity: Using the information provided below, write an email to Mike Fung, Seminar Coordinator at BFG.
You are the CEO of Canada Mortgage Inc. Your company, which has 12 branches in Ontario, arranges mortgages for home buyers and major lenders. The recent rise in money launderers using Canadian real estate purchases as a means to clean dirty money is of concern to your company and its stakeholders. Therefore, you think it’s important that 12 senior managers in each of your branches receive specialized training in how to protect against money laundering.
Through your research, you discovered BFG Inc., a firm that provides specialized training for financial professionals. You were particularly impressed with BFG’s expertise in anti-money laundering, compliance, risk management, and bribery and corruption prevention.
You’d like BFG to conduct a customized three-day workshop for your 12 senior managers. From the workshop, you hope that your managers will develop strategies for detecting, responding to, and preventing money laundering. You assume three days’ training could over all those points. You expect that sessions will include hands-on activities and copyright-free case studies that your managers could later duplicate and share with other members of their team. Write Mike Fung, Seminar Coordinator for BFG to request information on the possibility of holding the seminar and its cost. Mention that you would like the seminar to be conducted in your main office boardroom. You think September is the best month. You would prefer early September, if possible, and would like the seminar to run Tuesday to Thursday.