This is a briefing from your line manager about a project. Answer the
questions following the briefing.
“The Chief Executive has asked me to set up a community links project,
to help raise our profile locally. The idea is that the employees
choose a local community project or charity which the organisation
will support for a year, by fund-raising and by giving people short secondments
to help.
I’ve got to get a steering group together to run the project which has
representatives from across the organisation. Are there any people in
your team who you think might be any good? It needs someone with
common sense, who lives locally, and who would be interested in playing
a part in the project.
It will be run in work time, as far as possible, and only involves the
odd hour or so once or twice a month. Any ideas?”
1 Write a memo addressed to one of your team members to ask the
team member if he/she would be willing to be nominated to be on
the steering group of the project. You must decide which information
from the briefing needs to be included. The purpose of the
memo is to let the chosen team member know about the new project.
2 Write an email to your line manager, saying who you are suggesting
and why you think that team member should be on the steering
group. (Assume the person has agreed to be nominated.)