Progress report memo format

Background on the Project The small business where you work employs 45 people. In July, the firm will be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The last decade has been very profitable, and the president has decided that she wants to reward her staff with a company-wide retreat. The goal of the retreat will be to celebrate the firm’s success and begin strategic planning for the next 40 years. Because your company is small, employees wear many hats. While you are the Vice President of Human Resources, you must often work across lines to assist the legal department, consult with the managers in personnel and employee relations, and, most recently, you and a team of lower level executives supported the company’s president as she sought counsel on a new health care plan for the company. Your analysis of existing plans was excellent, and the president has asked you to head up planning and preparation for the company retreat. Your New Project, Broken Down In the next few days, you will provide the president with tentative “research” into various locations that can serve as the host site for the company retreat based upon contextual preferences. Your boss has asked that you come up with criteria that will serve as “defining preferences,” allowing you to compare and contrast what is available and what will best meet the retreat’s goals and needs. She offers select criteria that should be considered against context to provide scope for your analysis: • • • • • • • • Outdoor activities must be available. Cities are fine but may present budgetary obstacles with higher hotel/conference center rates. Host location must be relatively accessible by multiple airlines. International sites are fine, but few employees speak a foreign language; travel cost cannot exceed $600 per person. Safety is a priority. Hotel/Conference Center must offer top-level amenities, including a fitness center/space, meeting areas, food and bar service, and recreational activities within very close proximity. Wi-Fi—non-negotiable. Cost of rooms for employees and their guest should not exceed $350 per night. Your boss suggests that you review the criteria she has assigned and add three items you believe will support a more careful analysis of whatever options are available. She expects an update on these additional criteria in your progress report, detailed below. Deliverables On Thursday, November 15, you will present your boss with a Progress Report detailing the work you have accomplished on this project. On Thursday, November 29, you will deliver to your boss a Recommendation Report based upon your analysis of the options against your criteria. On Monday, December 3, you will conclude this project with a brief “examination” of details pertaining to your planning and preparation of the final report. How You Can Begin Work on this Project Now Two things are vital to begin work on the assignment: • • understanding the context for the project and your audience needs figuring out where your best sources of information are Obviously, the internet offers a number of great travel and resort site resources. These are actually pretty fun to explore, although you may get a little jealous of the fictitious group for whom you are planning the retreat! Please don’t spend any time on those travel sites until you have done your homework on your audience and context for this project. You get to be creative developing a profile for the company, so here are some questions to consider: 1. What does your company do? 2. Where is your company located? 3. What’s the company demographic? (think age ranges, gender/race/culture, SES, education, etc.) 4. What’s the mission and vision for your company? The more specific you can be about these details, the easier your research and development of new criteria will be. Also, you’ll need to provide information about this context in your progress report, so be clear and creative! Get started!! ( The company I choose is NYX, the makeup brand, It is located in LA, California. The three options on location I want to have is , 1) Miami beach, 2) Chicago, 3) Las Vegas. What you need to do is find flight tickets, no more then 600 per person, and a hotel to stay in, no more than 350 per night for each person. ( you can take a screenshot on the web pages of the prices and also provide me with the links. ...