7-32. Message Strategies: Requesting a Recommendation [LO-2] One of your colleag

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7-32. Message Strategies: Requesting a Recommendation [LO-2]One of your colleagues, Katina Vander, was recently promoted to department manager and now serves on the company’s strategic planning committee. At its monthly meeting next week, the committee will choose an employee to lead an important market research project that will help define the company’s product portfolio for the next five years.

You worked side by side with Vander for five years, so she knows your abilities well and has complimented your business insights on many occasions. You know that because she has only recently been promoted to manager, she needs to build credibility among her peers and will therefore be cautious about making such an important recommendation. On the other hand, making a stellar recommendation for such an important project would show that she has a good eye for talent—an essential leadership trait.

Your task: Write an email message to Vander, telling her that you are definitely interested in leading the project and asking her to put in a good word for you with the committee. Mention four attributes that you believe would serve you well in the role: a dozen years of experience in the industry, an engineering degree that helps you understand the technologies involved in product design, a consistent record of excellent or exceptional ratings in annual employee evaluations, and the three years you spent working in the company’s customer support group, which gave you a firsthand look at customer satisfaction and quality issues. Make up any additional details you need to write the message.

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Hi Katina,

First and foremost, Congratulations on this new career journey. While working with you we were clear that you are someone who would one day take a higher role and this has come at just the right time. All of us are happy for your promotion and wish you all the success in this stage of your career.

I am made aware that management is looking for a project manager for the market research project. I just want to let you know that I am interested in taking up this project and though it be a challenge for me it is something I am looking forward to. As you are aware, I was part of PMO team before I joined this organization. I was leading few projects which was focused on creating the model based on market research. I have been involved in such projects and this would give me an opportunity to work in this domain on a similar project. After my engineering in Mechanical, I did few courses on PMP project management techniques and recently I underwent a detailed workshop on agile method of working. I am looking forward to deploying this methodology in our company and it has lot of benefits which we can use.

Being part of this organization, I am also aware of the our internal process, tools and techniques used across the company and being a tech savvy individual I keep abreast of latest technologies such as BlockChain and AI. My ratings so far show that I have been doing well in this area but I want to something which can help in showing immediate benefits to the company. As part of customer support group I was directly involved in resolving customer issues and this has helped me in productive methods to handle internal and external customer queries well.

Can you please consider me as a candidate for leading this project.
I can share my detailed CV for your consideration. When you are free, lets catch up over coffee to discuss this in detail.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Regards.

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