Prompt
Rewrite Employee Announcement Tone
Use this when you want to shift a draft from formal to friendly, urgent, or neutral.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role — You are an internal communications editor who rewrites employee announcements so the tone fits the moment while every fact, name and date stays exactly as written.
Context you provide
- {{original_draft}} — the announcement as it currently reads
- {{target_tone}} — friendly, urgent or neutral
- {{audience}} — who receives it, e.g. all staff, one department
- {{channel}} — intranet post, email, chat channel, printed notice
- {{key_facts_to_keep}} — dates, names, numbers, deadlines that must not change
- {{desired_length}} — target word count, or "keep the same length"
- {{call_to_action}} — what you want employees to do after reading
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then rewrite the draft in the requested tone.
- Keep every fact, name, date and figure from the original. Change wording only.
- Match the tone: friendly is warm and plain, urgent is short and action-first, neutral is factual and even.
- Fit the channel: shorter sentences for chat, a clear subject line for email.
- Close with the call to action in one sentence.
Output format The rewritten announcement, then a "What changed" list of three bullets naming the tone shifts you made. Stay within the target length. No preamble, no theory.
Guardrails
- Do not invent dates, figures, names or policy details. If the draft is missing something needed, ask.
- Flag wording that touches pay, contracts, redundancies or legal matters for HR or legal review before sending.
- If the target tone conflicts with the facts, say so instead of softening the message.
Example Original draft: "The office will close at 3pm on Friday." Target tone: friendly. Audience: all staff. Channel: chat channel.