Teachers Directions:
B ad News Message (Executive/Administrator Response)
Description: Team members will receive one pitch from one of their teammates via team exchange. It doesn’t matter whose you receive, as long as all members have exchanged Pitches within their team (i.e. Member 1 to member 2, member 2 to member 3, and so on). Each student may use generative AI (if they choose) to write as if they are the audience addressed in the Pitch and reply with an email in email format to deliver the news that the proposed program unfortunately cannot go forward. The message should indicate why moving forward on the pitch is not feasible at this time. This is NOT a team assignment. Each student should complete this assignment.
Any opportunities for improvements/faulty logic with the pitch will be researched and described with evidence. You will source your research in-text using APA format. You do not need a references page for this assignment. The decline message should clearly indicate why moving forward with their pitch is not feasible at this time using the direct format of a decline message as shown in the text. This decline message should read as more than a stock email rejection. Be a human, you must do some research on their proposal, and tell them the honest, empathetic, real truth that you won’t be adopting their idea.
This is NOT a team assignment. Each individual student should complete this assignment.
You should include the following in your feedback:
- Restate your understanding of the recommendation.
- Evaluate the recommendation quality, logic, and research.
- Suggest ways the employee can improve the recommendation or make a stronger argument by using your own research.
REQUIRED:
LABEL THE COMPONENTS OF YOUR BAD NEWS MESSAGE IN YOUR EMAIL. Not using the required labels mean no points earned for this assignment. You can use highlights, text boxes, capital letters, parenthesis, etc. to make your labels stand out.
Required labels in your response:
- Buffer-select a buffer AND name the buffer style you used (Ch.12)
- Bad News
- Rationale
- Impact
- Goodwill
I have provided examples of quality, but not perfect, Bad News messages on Canvas. Be honest in your evaluation of the idea. You have a responsibility as a colleague to tell the person who submitted the pitch that it is not a sound idea in its current state. I will be the only reader of your assignment, so practice giving useful critique now when the only thing at stake is an assignment score, not your career. Every idea will likely have some merit, so be careful about dismissing the idea entirely and discouraging the student from working to improve the recommendation/never giving another recommendation.
Textbook Reference: Use the information in Chapters 6, 7, and 12 to frame your message.
Submission: Write this email in a PDF document and submit that to Canvas by the deadline.
Grading: If you are using AI to generate your text, I am going to use AI for grading your assignment. If you wish to avoid this and have me “manually” grade your assignment, please write it out fully without the use of AI and put “MANUALLY WRITTEN/GRADED” at the top of the document.
My Notes/Directions:
I will upload 3 documents: The Pitch/Letter you will be denying (it’s a student named Melissa, you will see her name in the document) from the student as Professor Wagner, and then two example PDFs of denial letters that received a 100, so you have an idea. However, follow the directions.
Again, you will be writing a bad news message to Melissa, that’s the student we are responding to. The other docs are previously graded examples.
Please, no AI USAGE and write Manually WRITTEN at the top of the document. Thank you.
Note: the 3rd PDF of the bad news message examples also received a 100; the red dots were messages from the professor, not corrections.
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