Fundamentals of Business Communication Email Announcement

Imagine the following scenario:

You are planning a series of trainings for your team of employees on best practices in workplace communication. Your first step is to send out an email highlighting the topics of your upcoming series of trainings.

Write a 350- to 700-word message, in the form of an email, directed at your employees that discusses the topics to be covered in the upcoming trainings. Describe each topic (listed in bulleted form below) in a brief sentence or two to summarize each one.

Include a brief description of the following topics as part of your message:

How business communication differs from informal or personal communication
Considerations for intercultural communication in the business environment
How ethics applies to business communication
How social media and other digital technologies shape business communication
How to plan, while incorporating ethics, as a part of the three-step writing process