The HR department sends out a memo to all department heads in the company, detailing the new mentoring program the company is planning to implement. The department heads discuss the new initiative with the supervisors who report to them at their monthly meeting. According to this information the department heads are the primary audience of the message but the supervisors are not part of the secondary audience because they did not receive a physical copy of the memo.

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The secondary audience is anyone who may receive a copy of the message or hear about it, either from the sender or from the primary audience. Since the supervisors heard about the mentoring initiative that was the subject of the memo, they are indeed part of the secondary audience.

The HR Department Sends Out a Memo to All Department