The national sales manager of a large pharmaceutical sales company has been driving the local sales managers and their teams to hit a challenging annual target for sales of a new painkiller for sufferers of migraine. The target was reached just before the end of the year.

Your task: You must write a message from the perspective of the national sales manager to be posted on the company Facebook page. The message should be no more than 250 words long and contain the following information: (1) The target has been reached at the very last moment before the end of the year; (2) the result is that the company has met its overall sales target, meaning that the sales force will all receive a 5 percent bonus; and (3)

for individual salespeople who met or exceeded their individual target for sales of the new painkiller, an extra 2.5 percent will be paid out.

The tone of the message must be motivational but written in a manner that reflects the need for sales to continue with the same levels of growth in order to maintain the success of the current year. You must remember that though the Facebook page is not a fully public document, it is likely to reach any person interested in an organization that is large and successful and, therefore, open to public scrutiny.