You can be straightforward and gracious at the same time when sending emails. Providing call to action dos and don’ts Kat Boogard shares five cut-and-paste templates to use in your emails.
- Don’t be too general
- Do include a deadline
- Don’t forget to say thank you
. . . being explicit about what you need can feel a little counterintuitive. We don’t want to seem like steamrollers, so we send messages that are so politely vague, they end up being completely unclear.” Kat Boogaard
Source: The Muse, June 19, 2020. Link.