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.

 

Catherine

About Catherine Mattice

Catherine Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the founder/CEO of Civility Partners, an organizational development firm focused on helping organizations create respectful workplace cultures and specializing in turning around toxic cultures. Civility Partners’ clients range from Fortune 500’s to small businesses across many industries. Catherine is a TEDx speaker and an HR thought-leader who has appeared in such venues as USA Today, Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, and many other national news outlets as an expert. She’s an award-winning speaker, author and blogger, and has 50+ courses reaching global audiences on LinkedIn Learning. Catherine’s award-winning book, BACK OFF! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work, was hailed by international leadership-guru, Ken Blanchard, as, “the most comprehensive and valuable handbook on the topic.” Her latest book is Navigating Toxic Work Environments For Dummies (Wiley).

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