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Guidelines : Holiday Greetings
Holiday Greetings
Guidelines and Alternate Phrases
- Be brief.
- Focus on the employees as individuals. You may do this by mentioning specific team accomplishments and solutions to problems in the past year. Or you may mention inside-the-company anecdotes, recall your pleasant work together, or say you are looking forward to new projects in the coming year.
- This year has enriched our friendships and expanded our organizational horizons.
- This year has been an exceptional one. Together we’ve conquered projects, overtaken deadlines, and charted success after success.
- As the year comes to a close, I want to commend you on all you’ve accomplished during the past months–the Lamb project, the European expansion, the “derby.”
- Before we usher in the new year, I want to express my appreciation for what you’ve accomplished in the current one. My hat’s off to you.
- Are holidays a time for “thank-you’s”? They are, if you have a staff as productive and successful as you’ve been this past year.
- You’ve accomplished great things this year–it’s certainly time for a celebration even if Christmas hadn’t been so appropriately placed on the calendar.
- The red circle around December 25 marks a special day for families–at home and at work. As a work family, you’ve been caring, supportive, and resourceful this past year.
- Give details about any plans to get together for a celebration as a group.
- I’m looking forward to our dinner at the Hyatt on December 10. Each employee is welcome to bring a spouse or friend.
- We will close the office at 4:00 p.m. on the 23rd so we can exchange greetings personally. Please join us in the Burgundy Center at that time for light refreshments.
- Let’s get a jump on the season and celebrate early at the Westin, Friday, December 20. Please join us.
- Can you join us to share warm wishes on Wednesday, December 18, in the east lobby?
- We invite you to join us at 3:00 p.m. on December 22 in the lobby to share sentiments of the season.
- Mention modestly any gift you’re sending along.
- Please accept these money-saving coupons as a small gift of appreciation for your business.
- We hope the enclosed Waypole Journal gives you a sense of the industry feelings about the political and economic climate. Let us know if 11 more issues don’t find their way to your door.
- The basket that will be arriving contains lively “spirits”–the spirit of holiday happiness and good health. Drink up.
- Do you think you can find a use for one more desk calendar? This one is special because it marks the anniversary of our first year’s service to you.
- I’m mailing separately a calendar I think will bring a laugh or two.
- I hope you can use another one of those fruit baskets, ubiquitous around the Christmas season. However, mine will be special because it comes with much heartfelt appreciation for the help you’ve given me this past year.
- Express warm wishes for the season. Avoid making the note sound like a “duty.” Be warm, creative, and sincere.
- Have a happy holiday.
- Cheers.
- The very best to each of you for the coming year.
- One of the best parts of ushering in the new year is remembering the good times of the past year. Thank you for the productive, fun-filled, collaborative projects.
- I wish you a safe, happy holiday.
- Best wishes for the happiest of holidays.
- May this holiday be everything you wish for your family and friends.
- Have a blessed holiday.
- You deserve the best during this holiday season.
- May the joy of the season make your holiday especially nice.
- Enjoy every minute with your family and friends. I wish you a wonderful holiday season.
- May your Christmas be a special time of joy and love.
- We want to extend the season’s best to those whose friendship and goodwill we so deeply appreciate.
- We wish for you and your family a joyous season.
- Our best for the holiday season and the new year to come. May it bring you health, happiness, and success along the way.
- Enjoy your holiday rest and relaxation with family members–they are the reason for our year-long work.
- We hope the season is everything you want it to be.
- Give our best to your family and your staff.
- May you have a relaxing and warm celebration with your families and return to us ready to greet the new year with gusto.
- Enjoy yourselves with family and friends.
- Enjoy every minute of rest, relaxation, and family hugs.
- Trim the tree, eat those cookies, and wrap those packages, all with one thing in mind: You’ve worked hard and you deserve to enjoy the season with family and friends.
- May God bless you in this special holiday season, and keep you through the new year.
- We wish for you a bright, five-pointed star: sales, service, safety, satisfaction, and success.
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Example 1: Holidays Letter
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Greetings to Our Salespeople:
It’s December again–almost before we have our heads out of the Bilton-Sinclare compensation-package proposal. Let’s get together for lunch on December 21 and throw it in neutral for a few hours.
Yes, I do appreciate your dedication–the long hours you’ve put in, the anxiety attacks over client acceptances, and the hustle for short deadlines.
No, I don’t want you to miss out on a well-deserved rest and holiday! We’ll meet for lunch in the Westin lobby at noon. (It’s dutch, sorry.)
I hope the new year is the very best for you.
Regards,
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Example 2: Sample letter of holiday greetings
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To Baxter Employees:
Pardon the paper–I’d prefer to be handwriting each of you a holiday note on personal stationery if time would allow, but try not to let this formal letter detract from the heartfelt thanks I feel toward each of you. With your help we have accomplished a great deal and earned compliments from clients and customers on the results.
Most especially in this holiday time when our thoughts turn to family and friends, I want to express my gratitude for the team spirit among you–your genuine caring for each other’s well-being and your willingness to be supportive in times of spiritual, emotional, and physical need.
For each of you and your families, I wish a special season filled with love, friendship, and contentment.
Sincerely,
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Example 3: Holiday greetings letters
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A Note to Everyone in the Field:
It takes a great deal of both individual and collective energy to have a successful year in an organization like ours. As the year comes to a close, I want to thank all of you for your contributions on behalf of the support staff.
We’re looking forward to another year of excitement, change, and opportunities. Thank you for your help and best wishes for a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year.
Sincerely,
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Example 4: Holidays greeting letter to company
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Dear Friends of Baxter, Inc.:
We so much appreciate your business throughout the year–we hope you’re as pleased with our efforts and successes. Your staff has been so helpful and courteous that doing business with you has been a real pleasure.
You have our very best wishes for the holiday season. The enclosed clock will tell you when it’s time to relax and enjoy family and friends. Though Christmas is frequently full of surprises, we wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you have the best year ever in 19–.
Cordially,
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Example 5: Example of Holiday Greetings letters
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Dear Jim,
It sure has been a prosperous and successful year for us at the Cleaning Technology Clinic, and we owe a big part of that success to you.
During this past year, we have had the pleasure of seeing professionalism and growth in numerous companies in the industry but none as expansive as yours. The enthusiasm generated by you and your staff has led to mutual respect among several in the industry.
This coming year presents a real challenge for us, and we hope to continue our good working relationship with you.
On behalf of all the staff here, we want to thank you for the most generous services you have provided in the past year. We wish you a most refreshing holiday, and we look forward to expanding our mutually beneficial relationship in the new year.
Sincerely,
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Example 6: Letter for Holiday Greetings
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Dear Francis:
There is no more appropriate time than the beginning of a new year to wish you and Arvillo International every success and to express our appreciation for past assignments.
We hope in the coming year you will consider us as an extension of your own team for both organizational counsel and executive recruiting.
We wish you the best in the new year.
Cordially,
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Example 7: Holidays letters
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Dear Fellow Staffers:
I want to take this opportunity to let you know I have appreciated your efforts over the past 12 months. Our growth–particularly of the software line–can be traced directly to your support services to the customers.
To each of you, may the holidays bring a relaxing, meaningful time with family and friends. Best wishes.
Sincerely,
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Example 8: Season Holiday Greetings
Memorandum
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SUBJECT: Best Wishes for the Holiday Season
As we approach the holiday season, I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your loyal, productive efforts over the past 12 months.
Working with a group of professionals such as you, who care about the job you do and the people you work with, is a pleasure I don’t take for granted.
My best wishes to you and your families for a safe, happy holiday season.
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Example 9: Season Holiday Greetings letters
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Dear Bob:
As the year closes, we want you to know how much your business and your friendship mean to us. As a small token of our appreciation for your help in the development of our compensation packages, we have enclosed a desk calendar we hope will help keep you on schedule in 19–.
Once again, thanks. Have a wonderful holiday season and a successful new year.
Regards,
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Example 10: Season Holiday Greetings
Memorandum
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SUBJECT: Best Wishes for the New Year
During this past year, our team efforts have resulted in unprecedented growth for our company. The Utclair and Joshua contracts come readily to mind as our most significant contributions and also our most challenging. All of us, I’m sure, have gained valuable professional experience and managed to strengthen our friendships as well.
I look forward to ushering in another fulfilling year at Memorial. Have a happy holiday season.
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Example 11: Holiday Greetings Template
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Dear Martha:
As the holiday draws near, Sybil and I want to thank you for the many kindnesses you have extended to us in our travels during this past year. I can assure you our pleasant business association has been the source of much less travel anxiety than before our paths crossed.
We’ve sent a little gift to say thank you–a subscription to Forbes for the coming year. We hope you will enjoy reading it throughout the months ahead as much as we enjoy sending it.
With warmest regards,
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Example 12: Holiday Greetings
Memorandum
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SUBJECT: Holiday Cheer
Let me put my good spirit and best wishes in writing: here’s to the happiest holiday season and new year to date; you deserve it. Until the Christmas party December 23–
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