Email – key and notes
To: Charles Barton
Cc:
Subject: (eg you could have put Progress Group or Our Training methods or Urgent)
Progress Group have been in contact with me today. They are concerned about our training methods and have suggested that an enquiry takes place. This has arisen from information gathered from recent staff appraisals.
We need to meet with them to plan our response. Please liaise by Friday afternoon to agree a good time. Guy Fenwick, Development and Training Manager, would head the project and you may wish to call him prior to the meeting. He could advise on preliminary factors for us to think about.
They are likely to want to know what our training scheme is and how effective it is. I think we need to be honest with them. We should refer to the problems as well as the benefits. This survey needs to be taken very seriously. We should perhaps use this as an opportunity to obtain further funding and increased support for training programmes from other sections.
Gwen
Phrases and vocabulary common in the fields of work and business:
prior to the meeting = before the meeting
head = lead
arise – intransitive verb – originate or become apparent
arise from / out of – to occur as a result of
a staff / job / performance appraisal – when an employee meets their manager or employer to discuss their progress, aims and needs at work. In some organisations appraisals are yearly, in others every six months
to appraise – verb – to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success or needs
liaise – to speak to people in other sections or organizations in order to exchange information with them – eg liaise with personnel / with the finance officer / with a manufacturer
further – additional
Guessing the spellings of names and places:
Barton – you might have written Barten.
Notice the silent ‘w‘ in Fenwick. If you wrote ‘Fenick‘ that would be a good guess. We have a lot of silent ‘w’s in place-names – Alnwick (pronounced Ann – ick), Berwick (pronounced Berr – ick), Harwich – (pronounced Harr – idge), Norwich (pronounced Norr – idge).