Question

As you move through your professional career, you will receive requests for favors and contributions. You will not be able to honor all the requests you receive and will sometimes refuse requests. When refusing a request, first think about the receiver, and then determine the approach for your message.

Answer 1

Growing professionally comes with advises, comments (solicited and unsolicited), request for favours and also contributions. Moving up your professional career from the days of little beginning have always been accompanied with all of the requests and comments. As one levitates successfully, requests and contributions tend to increase. This can be scary and at the same time tiring as you go to question the sensibility of some of your decisions. While being inundated with these ’assistance', it is important that you carefully and thoroughly select the comments, contributions, requests of favours etc that is worth responding to. While some would be considered others will be discarded. Now, the question is how best can we politely turndown a person's request of favours and contributions without sounding rude, ungratetul and condescending. Both useful and irrelevant contributions deserve good responses. We could start by appreciating the request for favours and contributions, and tell whomsoever it may concern that you appreciate his/her assistance but unfortunately would not be needing them.