Complete Project 4: Positive Message (100 possible points). Complete exercise 9.

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Complete Project 4: Positive Message (100 possible points). Complete exercise 9.17 (Announcing an Employee Fitness Center) on page 283 in your textbook. Read and follow all instructions carefully. Compose your email text in Microsoft Word (i.e., don’t send me an email) using the following template:

To:
Cc:
Subject: Think of a creative subject!

[message]

Include a salutation and an appropriate signature block. Use the information in Chapter 9 and the checklist on page 273 to craft a positive and informative message. The more creative the better, but be sure to include all of the necessary information.

Before drafting your message, consider the questions for analysis provided below (in addition to the hints provided in the exercise). You may use your current company or create your own scenario for this assignment.

Submit your assignment under "Project 4: Positive message" on Turnitin.com before midnight on Sunday, July 1.

Your email will be evaluated on the following criteria:

Following all instructions and addressing all information completely

Organizing content appropriately for positive messages (see Figure 9.4)

Demonstrating consideration of the elements of positive, informative messages

Writing a clear, concise message with the appropriate tone and style for the intended audience

Avoiding negative words, having positive emphasis, being audience-focused (you-attitude)

Building goodwill between audience and author

Being free of errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar

Being submitted on time

9.17 Announcing an Employee Fitness Center Your company is ready to open an employee fitness center with on-site aerobics and yoga classes, station- plan is in effect, you'll need a different explanation for the company's decision to open the fitness center ary bikes, treadmills, and weight machines. The center Stress benefits apart from the company's saving will be open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily; at least one qua fied instructor will be on duty at all times. Employees get first preference; if there is extra room, clients, spouses, and children 14 and older may also use the facilities Locker rooms and showers will also be avallable monev. How can easier access to exercise help emplovees? What do they do? How can exercise reduce stress, improve strength, help employees manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, and increase productivity at work? What kind of record does the company have of helping employees be healthy? Is the fitness center a departure for the company, or does the company have a history of company sports teams, stop- smoking clinics, and the like? What is the company's competitive position? If the company is struggling, you'll need to convince read- ers that the fitness center is a good use of scarce funds If the company is doing well, show how having fit employees can make people even more productive Stress fun as a benefit. How can access to the center make employees' lives more enjoyable? Your company hopes that the fitness center will help out-of-shape employees get the exercise they need to be more productive. Other companies have saved between $2.30 and $10.10 for every $1.00 spent on well- ness programs. The savings come from lower claims on medical insurance, less absenteeism, and greater productivity - Write the e-mail announcing the center Hints: Who pays the medical insurance for employees? If the employer pays, then savings from healthier employees will pay for the center. If another payment

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To:

CC:

Subject: Let us take 'survival of the fittest' to another level, together!

[message]

Wondering what the subject means? Well, it is our company considering its employees its biggest asset and taking steps to make sure that the asset gets the care it deserves! The Company is coming up with huge and contemporary fitness center with all sorts amentities like locker facilities and showers and equipments and activities like on-site aerobics, yoga classes, stationary bikes, treadmills and weight machines. Isn't it exciting that employees shall have their own space for working out within the company premise itself? Also exciting is the fact that the center shall be open right from 6 AM to 10 PM daily with at least one qualified instructor present there at all times so that the employees get the freedom to choose the time that suits them the most and make working out an integral part of their day. These centers shall not only be available for employers but if there is extra room, clients, spouses of employees and children below 14 years of age shall be more than welcome to join this fun fitness regime! Proper handling of stress in today's competitive world is extremely important for one's personal and professional growth. Now that these services will be so easily accessible to employees, it is going to go a long way in motivating them to stay healthy and fight obesity, illness and diseases because fitness ensures a better immunity system.

It is actually a win win situation for employer and employees both as one says 'health is wealth'. For employers, better health of employees would mean lower absenteeism, greater productivity and lower insurance claims as we know in our company it is the employer who pays for medical insurance, lower claims are more than desired. Other companies are seen to have saved somewhere between $ 2.3 and $ 10.10 for every $ 1 spent on such wellness programs. So definitely when this center is busy helping out of shape employees and giving them an opportunity of setting a lifestyle that gives proper emphasis to fitness, it gives employer a cost benefit too. Fitness is fun and so is cost reduction for any business! Teaching employees to handle stress in a better manner will invite only wellness - mentally and financially.

Hope this attempt to make lives better achieves what it aims to and everyone is benefitted it!

Thanking You.

Yours faithfully,

_______________

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