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Recipient: Manager

How to say no professionally

The situation

Your manager asked you to take on another project while you're already over capacity.

The goal

Decline a request from your manager without damaging the relationship.

Draft (the wrong way)

I'm really sorry but I don't think I can take this on right now, I'm just so swamped and I feel bad but I really can't.

Parse-optimized draft

Happy to help — with current load on Projects A and B, taking this on would push one of them past deadline. Which would you like me to reprioritize, or should we discuss handing this to someone with capacity?

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