A practical understanding of what constitutes a memo - P2.

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Now. Now you can all stop pretending that you don’t have the tools for structuring comprehensive policy implementation training sessions. If you’re going to construct mandatory training sessions notification and do it effectively, you'll never get out of the gate without specificating compulsory adherence to The 2 Stipulating Memo Principles.

1) All memo narrative forms are replaced by the 2nd person. Often mistaken for personal, this voice lets you maintain control of your memo by referring to all recipients as a de-individualized collective. “You all” is the preferred form of conveying non-directive warm fuzzies; and complimenting good performance at or near the outset is longstanding memo tradition, on the theory that you must give before you get.

2) Participles form the foundation around which all other useful linguistic qualifiers are gathered. Because participles indicate motion but are in fact staid; and because they so strongly imply an expiring timetable but are in fact tenseless, the standing HR participle policy has been 5 participles per memo paragraph of not more than 4 lines, known colloquially at the policy management level as the “5P4” strategy, with which you are familiar.

The company is expanding; the partners are optimistic that growth can be profitably contained, but they kindly ask that all managers adopt the new, highly evolved 7PP4P memo policy right away: no less than 7 participles per 4-line memo paragraph. 7PP4P has been rigorously trial-tested and shown to result in memos that communicate a sense of more pressing responsibility than ever before, while feeling no less organic.