Congratulations messages
A promotion at work generates a lot of public congratulation and very little private acknowledgement. These six are the private kind, and they name what the person actually did.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Congratulations. Genuinely pleased to see this happen, and I don't think there's a single person on the team who'd say otherwise. It's a good day for the team and a considerably better one for you. Enjoy it while it's new.
Continue writing with message 1Congratulations on the new role. It's going to suit you a great deal better than the old one did, and you've effectively been doing half of it unofficially for about a year already.
Continue writing with message 2Very well deserved. You've been the person people go to when something has actually gone wrong, and that's a harder reputation to build than any title. Congratulations, and do enjoy this properly.
Continue writing with message 3Congratulations! Please remember us fondly from your new corner of the office, and put in a good word every now and then. Genuinely pleased for you, and it's clearly the right call.
Continue writing with message 4Congratulations. Working with you has been one of the easier parts of my week for a while now, so this is good news for you and mildly inconvenient for the rest of us. Very happy for you all the same.
Continue writing with message 5Congratulations. I don't think people say this to each other often enough at work, so here it is: you're very good at your job, and you make the difficult parts of it look manageable to everybody around you. This was the obvious decision and I'm glad it got made. Enjoy it, and don't play it down.
Say what they were already doing. The most satisfying thing a newly promoted colleague can be told is that the promotion was a formality — that the work was visible before the title arrived. It is a compliment about competence rather than about luck or favour.
Keep office politics out of it entirely. No reference to who else was in the running, or to how long it took the company to act. It is their day, and a card that gestures at the unfairness they endured is a card about the company.
A sealed card is an unusual thing to receive at work. That is exactly why it lands.
Write the cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.