Draft an e-mail to the site services managers scheduling a meeting to discuss the budget (alternatively, you may choose to create a meeting request). Since you have no direct supervisory control, it will do little good to demand cuts; in fact, a demand to cut budget might result in the loss of a service that matters most to you! Therefore, consider your strategy and your persuasive approach carefully as you prepare the e-mail. You may also consider whether to use a direct or indirect approach to the memo. Remember to craft a clear and complete subject line for the memo, provide all the information they need to attend the meeting, and close with the next steps or how to contact you for further information.

In addition, consider what you might want to send to your audience to help prepare them for the meeting. Include a list of the attachments you would include with this e-mail along with a brief explanation of why you would include them.

As the head of the consulting team, you need to brief the senior partner on your findings so that he can then meet with the COO at Huge Computer Company.
You need to synthesize the information from the interviews, consolidate your key findings, and develop a one-page executive summary comparing the key features of the plans and making any observations or recommendations you have about merging the plans. Remember that the senior partner may or may not read your full report, so any key findings and your recommendations need to be easy to access and understand.

For this assignment, you need to select someone in your field of study, career, or other area of interest and create a profile of them as a model of leadership communication. Your focus throughout must be on his or her communication abilities and how communication supports and interacts with his or her leadership abilities. You may want to go back to the person selected in the rhetorical analysis assignment in Chapter 3.