MGMT1201: Business Communication - Leadership Retreat Invitation

This report presents an invitation for a leadership retreat organized by Byron Resources, a company facing challenges due to inefficiencies in leadership and employee management. The retreat aims to address these issues by focusing on the principles outlined in Stephen Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.' The invitation outlines the retreat's objectives, including improving leadership skills, enhancing employee motivation, and fostering a positive work environment. It emphasizes the importance of the book and its strategies for overcoming organizational and staff problems, such as employee retention and communication gaps. The report details the benefits of reading 'The 7 Habits,' including developing proactive attitudes, improving problem-solving skills, and enhancing employee confidence. The invitation encourages staff participation and provides resources, including access to the book and contact information for further inquiries. The report concludes with a bibliography of relevant sources.

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Business Newsletter September 2019
Introduction
In the last year, Byron Resources has faced some serious losses. As per the annual report,
it has observed that company runs through a loss of more than 29% of their annual expectation.
After conducting a thorough research and different survey, we noticed that the main reasons of
this downfall are the lack of efficiency in the leadership in managing employee performance,
inappropriate understanding of the job role, and inefficiency of the leaders in managing
employee management. To solve these issues the CEO and different boards of directors of Byron
Resources have developed different strategies based on the famous book “The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People” by Stephen Covey.
Announcement
On behalf of the entire company, the International Communication Manager has
arranged a retreat program on leadership at upcoming Sunday, 2019 and invites all staffs
associated with the organization to attend the session.
This session will going to be extremely interesting, as this session will discuss some
exiting facts about the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey and
provide different leadership strategies that may help us to overcome different barriers related to
the leadership and employee management.
This session will emphasize on the key measures to improve the leadership skills and
help us to overcome employee management problems. Thus, there is a humble request to every
individual to attend the meeting and contribute for the welfare of the organization.

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Discussion
The main motto of this program is to promote the view “Do not go where the path may
lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The meaning
of the above- mentioned phrase is leaders should innovate new and interesting strategies to
attract their employees and encourage them to perform well that would help the organization to
attain great position in the market.
The primary responsibility of a leader is to guide his/her employees, juniors or
subordinates to achieve their desired success. Leaders needs to be enthusiastic, charming and he
should able to motivate his employees to improve their performance for attaining the purpose of
organizational profit. Byron Resources is well- known recruiting consultancy, specialized for
their sourcing and securing higher caliber talents of different clients.
With the purpose of generating employee motivation and providing inspiration to
different employees, this program will examine various management issues given below:
 This meeting will discuss about the employee retention problems.
 It will focus on the improving the training and development events for enhancing
the quality of the production of new employees.
 It will provide key strategies for improving the leadership and management skills
of different leaders of different departments of the firm. This will help leaders to
generate healthy work environment in the organization.
 It will focus on improving different facilities for employees. This session
emphasizes on the improving leaders attitude in developing proactive attitude
based on the principles of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen
Covey.

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Purpose & Objective:
There are different objectives for organizing this session:
 The main objective of this session is to encourage and motivate different
employees to provide their best performance for achieving organizational target.
 This session aims to implement strategies given in the book “The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People” for improving the leadership skills of the firm’s
supervisors.
 This session aims to recognize the performance quality of different employees
and to identify the actual reasons that restricts them to perform better to attain
organization’s target in a time consuming manner.
 It will aims to develop the new techniques for the organizational leaders for
establishing a good image of the firm among all competitors present in the
market.
 This session will help the firm to recognize its best employee and helps to provide
rewards to encourage his/her performance.
Criteria:
In order to be the part of this session staffs should develop knowledge or read the book
named “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey because it will help the
employees to understand different strategies and themes that will discuss in the session.
Top 10 Advantages of Reading “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”:
 This book provides a great knowledge about different strategies that will help the leader
in improving their skills of overcoming sudden emerging threats of the organization.

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 It helps the leader to develop proactive attitude for achieving greater success of the firm.
 According to this book leader should develop winning attitude for competing other
competitors present in the market.
 As per the book employee should put more focus on the urgent task first and should
develop strategic plans for achieving the same.
 This book helps different employees in boasting their confidence in providing best
performance during the crisis –situations of the organization.
 This book will help the leader or employee to generate acceptance of new ideas and
thoughts and this will help them to develop their creativity.
 It will help employees in establishing focus while during the period of gaining knowledge
about any new tasks.
 As per this book, employees should evaluate new ideas and things to develop their
knowledge and interactive skills while presenting any project.
 This book provides strategies that helps employees in developing physical fitness that
will help them to improve their capacity of dealing unusual barriers.
 This book helps the leaders in developing innovative ideas for reaching their personal
goals.
Importance of the Retreat Program in solving both Organizational and Staff’s
Problems:
 This session helps the leaders and supervisors in recognizing different problems that has
restricted the staffs to give their best performance for the organizational benefits.
 It will help the leaders in improving their skills that will help them bridge the
communication gap with their subordinates.

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 Finally, it helps the employees in identifying their weaknesses and provide solutions to
overcome the same.
By providing such strategies, the book will help the employees in developing new ideas about
the leadership style. This book will help the organization in generating employee interest about
the importance of the business communication and it will help them to enrich their knowledge
for achieving success in both organization prospect as well as the staff’s interest.
Availability of the book:
Employees should access the mentioned book in company’s website. In order to avail
the hard copy they may purchase it from the organizational library. This session will deliver
detailed knowledge about the importance of the book in developing transparent business
communication among the leaders and different employees. The session includes different visual
analysis that will help the staffs in generating interest for reading the book.
Thus, it is the humble request for the staffs to attend the program and provide their
support to achieve success in organizing the same. For more details employees may contact in
the company’s website and the may ask their doubts on the email id of the Internal
Communication Manager of the Byron Resources.

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