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The moment your colleague is leaving brings along a combined feeling of joy and distress. Joy because he is leaving for betterment and a better career opportunity and distress because you will be missing all the golden moments spend with him in his tenure with the organizations and during his association with you.
When it comes to writing a farewell speech for your colleagues, focus more on the positive relationship that you have shared with your colleague. In case the person is leaving due to some adverse situations of life, then try to put yourself in his or her shoes and imagine his or her feeling, then respond accordingly.
Read the below mentioned guidelines or checklist that may help you write a good farewell speech for your colleague :
- Announce the farewell of your colleague.
- Expresses your colleague’s achievements and appreciation for the way he worked, learned, co-operated and lived with.
- Briefly describe his personal traits as a person, as an employee and as a colleague.
- Link his or her contributions and achievements to the history and development of the organization, community, place, school or college.
- Mention few of his successful projects.
- Recall past memories and moments shared with your colleague.
- Describe your feelings for the person leaving.
- Briefly write the reasons for leaving and what you feel about the reason.
- Shower the person leaving with love, affection and best wishes for his or her future.
- Wish her or him all the best for future successes.
- You can conclude by writing some personalized farewell poem or quotation.
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