The past month I’ve caught myself thinking about summer destinations, getaways, untroubled moments and a break in business activity.
At the same I’ve realised that the mind and the body need to recuperate after a much challenging year with loads of adjustments and strenuous moments.
At some point most of us will experience this “glorious” time of switching off our laptop, put a temporary halt to our business ventures and finally sail away to our summer holiday destination. Before that we want to make sure that we send the relevant messages and emails to our colleagues and partners informing them that we will be indulging into a nice break.
And we should all agree that the “out of the office” automated message is not good enough if we want to establish and maintain a good rapport with our business associates.
Let’s explore some Dos and Don’ts in sending seasonal greetings in order to make sure that what you write is written in the correct manner.
Dos
• Begin with your seasonal greeting. You can even state it on the email topic. This will let the recipients know that you are sending a holiday greeting. i.e. “Happy Summer Vacations”.
• Express your appreciation and gratitude to the person you are writing to for your cooperation so far. State your eagerness to start fresh after your summer vacation. This will add a personal touch and make your message more genuine.
• Keep it short and simple with a pinch of positivity and confidence about what will follow after the vacation is over.
Don’ts
• Avoid long and very descriptive sentences regarding your summer holidays and destination. You need to think that the recipient may still have some work time and work obligations before they get on a summer break and in the worst case scenario they may not have any holiday leave. Empathy is the key.
• Avoid mixing summer greetings with unfinished business. In case you need to get your point across or solve some pending business issues do it in a separate email before the greetings of course.
• Don’t turn your holiday greeting into a chance to sell or persuade someone just because the context is “summerish”.
Here is a collection of happy summer holiday wishes that you can include in your emails or messages.
• Happy Summer Vacations! Have a great time.
• I wish you have a wonderful vacations trip.
• Have a nice vacation. Enjoy your summer trip.
• Wishing you happy holidays in a beautiful location.
• Let your vacations be full of joy. I wish your vacation gives you the pleasure of relaxing and recharging your batteries.
• May this summer bring lots of happiness and nice memories to your life. Wish you have a great summer.
• Happy summer vacation, my dear colleague. You don’t need to worry about work because I have your back. Have fun!
• I wish you a good summer. May you have a great time with your family. Enjoy fresh fruits and forget your work pressure.
• From the entire team at [name of business], have a nice summer break and enjoy it to the fullest.
• Enjoy your summer vacation and come back fast. We will keep piles of work for you.(Only if you know the other end well and you share the same kind of humour).
And just like that I’d like to say and wish you from the bottom of my heart: This has been an amazing year for me and my colleagues, clients, students and business associates. We’ve all experienced unprecedented challenges but we’ve managed to look them in the eye and against all odds we’ve managed to keep up with our personal and professional development; with our desire to reach the top and conquer the peak; we’ve managed to make an impact.
Happy Summer and may you have a lovely Summer Time!
