Get Buy-In From the Top! Email To Your Boss

by Jan 23, 2025

When you’ve discovered a valuable resource or service that could benefit your organization, getting buy-in from leadership is critical. 

Use this email template to propose Civility Partners’ services to your boss. Simply customize the placeholders with your own insights and ideas.

 

Email Template

Dear [Boss’s Name],

Recently, I participated in a webinar hosted by Civility Partners, titled _______________. During the session, I gained valuable insights, including insert profound nugget(s) of info you learned here.

Civility Partners specializes in fostering positive workplace cultures through executive coaching, corporate training, and large culture change projects tailored to address various organizational challenges. Their programs are designed to empower employees, enhance collaboration, and create lasting cultural shifts within teams.

With your permission, I’d like to explore the possibility of partnering with Civility Partners to address insert current workplace challenge(s). Their expertise aligns perfectly with our needs and could help us achieve insert desired outcome(s), e.g., better communication, higher productivity, or reduced turnover.

For example, Civility Partners’ expertise focuses on:

  • Helping organizations with cultures of harassment, discrimination, and bullying turn it around to a culture of employee engagement and respect.
  • Collecting data through a survey and focus groups, and developing action plans to improve where needed.
  • Delivering training programs to upskill managers, build collaboration between teams and departments, or giving and receiving feedback. 
  • Collaborating with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to small businesses, across various industries. You can check it out here along with short case studies.

Implementing these solutions could help us insert specific benefit, e.g., improve employee morale, increase retention, or boost efficiency. If successful, the investment could save us insert dollar amount or other tangible metric, making it a cost-effective choice for the organization.

Would you be available to discuss this sometime this week? I’d love to share more details and explore how we can leverage Civility Partners’ services to benefit our team and organization.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Many organizations ignore employee engagement because it feels elusive and expensive. Rather than getting caught up in the fear and doing nothing, download our eBook on employee engagement, and get started.

 

About Catherine Mattice

Catherine Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is President of consulting and training firm, Civility Partners, and has been successfully providing programs in workplace bullying and building positive workplaces since 2007. Her clients include Fortune 500’s, the military, several universities and hospitals, government agencies, small businesses and nonprofits. She has published in a variety of trade magazines and has appeared several times on NPR, FOX, NBC, and ABC as an expert, as well as in USA Today, Inc Magazine, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and more. Catherine is Past-President of the Association for Talent Development (ATD), San Diego Chapter and teaches at National University. In his book foreword, Ken Blanchard called her book, BACK OFF! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work, “the most comprehensive and valuable handbook on the topic.” She recently released a second book entitled, SEEKING CIVILITY: How Leaders, Managers and HR Can Create a Workplace Free of Bullying.

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