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You will recommendation type business report using the Formal Business Report Style Guide resource in Module 7. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively and use external sources to build your credibility in your communication.
Scenario:
You have graduated from your program at BVC and are working for an organization (come up with a fictitious name) in your field of study. The person you report to (use your instructor's name) has asked that you create a formal business report for the problem below based on your specific program. You will need to do some research to better describe what impact this problem is having and offer recommendation(s) to fix the problem. You will need to develop the scenario and problem further (create a story of what happened) to provide a comprehensive recommendation.
Problem (program specific):
Administrative Professional: You work for company that has several offices across the city that need to collaborate on a weekly basis. You face difficulty as the administrative assistant in effectively scheduling and coordinating meetings, including challenges in finding suitable meeting times, securing meeting rooms, and ensuring all necessary participants are informed and available.
Part 1: Planning Your Business Report
Overview: Create an outline for your business report will help you logically structure your report by defining the objective and the supporting content needed to write a cohesive report. This will focus your writing so that you have the necessary information (concise, concrete and complete).
Deliverable: Complete the Business Report Part 1 template by outlining the content for your problem (findings), recommendation sections and a business report figure. You must include something from the Business Communication course in either the problem or recommendation (i.e. credibility, ethics, team skills, difficult conversations, diversity, persuasive or bad-news messages, etc.). The reference is:
Cardon, P. & Stevens, J. (2021). Business communication: Developing leaders for a networked world. 1st Canadian Ed. McGraw-Hill
Research Considerations:
No academic journals can be cited/referenced. Do not use Google Scholar or articles that have a DOI.
In-text citations can include direct and/or paraphrased quotes. No quote will be over 40 words.
Do not paraphrase or make assumptions on an entire paragraph or abstract.
Include the page or paragraph number with your citation in the Business Report Part 2.
Instructions:
Open the Word template, Business Report Part 1 Template and use this document for your submission. Complete the template as follows:
Make up a company name
Type in your role for your company (make up a role i.e. legal assistant, sales coordinator).
Problem (findings) Research (see example below):
Questions: Based on the program you are enrolled in, use the scenario to develop questions around why this is a problem and what would happen if this continues. Or use the questions that are in the template if these work for your scenario. The scenarios provided are general and you have an opportunity to develop the scenario further (make something up) as it relates to the scenario by building the story around the problem. You may only choose one problem from the scenario and focus on that problem when creating your story.
Supporting Points: Using bullet points, try to think of a list of ideas (key words-not full sentences) that would be important to answer the questions. Strive to have three supporting points. Try to come up with this list first before looking on the Internet for ideas. In brackets beside each point, come up with information that substantiates these points. This can be "made up" information, but it must be realistic.
Research: Look for business articles that pertain to your supporting points to help build credibility to the statements that you will write. List the article title, the sentence that you would like to use, the page/paragraph number, and the weblink to the source. Academic Journals cannot be used for this report.