Polite Ways to Say No-Group D by Carol Wilson-Duffy https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD en-us 2016-10-24 20:36:24 UTC 2025-12-20 04:43:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Situation #10 One of your coworkers has sent you a draft of an email. He wants to know what you think of the email. There are numerous mistakes and it needs to be revised. How would you politely explain this to your coworker? carolwilsonduffy https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852183 2016-10-24 20:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852183 Situation #11 You work as a software developer.  A coworker approaches you with a business opportunity. She wants you to design an app with her and split the profits. You aren’t interested in the opportunity. How would you tell her you aren’t interested? carolwilsonduffy https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852214 2016-10-24 20:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852214 Situation #12 You’re working on a project with a coworker. You need a document that he was supposed to be finished with yesterday. You want to tell him that there is a real sense of urgency and that you need the document as soon as possible. What would you say to him? carolwilsonduffy https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852236 2016-10-24 20:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/132852236 #10 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133765471 Hi Jialu, hope this e-mail finds you well. I have read through your email, and the draft is good in general. But I noticed there are also some points we can work on and make some improvement.]]> 2016-10-27 20:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133765471 # 11 Hi Michelle, I really appreciate your invitation but now I'm busy with my current works. I can recommend some of my friends to you who are very good at app designing. I have some friends who are expertise in app designing , if you are willing to cooperate with them. I can contact them for you. Hope I can have chances to cooperate with you in the near future. https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133766074 2016-10-27 20:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133766074 #12 Hi, John. How are you going? Is anything going smoothly with your part of the project ? The thing is , I'm really urgent to have the document A to back up my work. Could you please finish it as soon as possible and send it to me later. I would really appreciate it if you could help me.  https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133767287 2016-10-27 20:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133767287 #10 comment https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133769747 Maybe add some real advise or suggest a time to work together]]> 2016-10-27 20:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133769747 #11 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133769840 Good. Completed. Alternatives are good and helpful.]]> 2016-10-27 20:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133769840 #12 https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133770285 It is too smooth. Maybe it would not work in  a coworker conversation. Maybe you should push him. ]]> 2016-10-27 20:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carolwilsonduffy/politeNosGroupD/wish/133770285