Web Links / book recommendations for sample emails to boss & colleagues

May 24, 2013 4:01 PM

Looking for sample business emails to improve my writing skills. The resources I found are typically for writing to clients or customers. I am looking for sample emails that one writes mostly internally within their own company. For example an email one would write to make a suggestion, disagree with something, ask for status, share an idea, remind someone politely, coach someone etc (Common business scenarios). Not looking for emails to win business or sell anything. Would appreciate if you could share web links or books (preferably the ones available at amazon.com). Also, I would like examples and not a resource that just gives guidance.
posted by r2d2 to Work & Money (2 answers total)

This is super individual business-specific. The exact right way to do this at one company would be too casual or too formal or too awkward at another company. This is something you need to learn with your own business culture, partially by careful reading of other people's emails. Also, this is something you can explicitly ask your boss for help with -- it's the sort of thing a boss is supposed to do.
posted by brainmouse at 5:09 PM on May 24, 2013

Response by poster: Agreed. But I think a book / sample emails still helps. It gives an idea and a starting point.
posted by r2d2 at 5:51 PM on May 24, 2013