Follow-Up Email: After the Team Meeting

The scenario: you just led your first team meeting (see Leading Your First Team Meeting). Marta pushed back on the proposed timeline in front of the whole team. Write a short follow-up email to the group.

Your email should:

• Summarise the two or three agreed action items
• Address Marta's timeline concern without dismissing it or caving completely
• Confirm the next step, and who owns it

120–180 words. Write it the way you actually would — this isn't a grammar test, it's a communication test.

What personal feedback looks like

This is the kind of note you'd get back on a real submission — not a grade, a conversation about what to change and why.

From a different draft, about a delayed delivery:
"I know the delay is frustrating but there was nothing we could do, the supplier let us down."

Feedback: this explains the delay to yourself, not to the client. Try: "I understand the delay affects your launch date — here's what we're doing to bring it back on track." Same facts, but now the email is about them, not about you.

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