2017.07.05
英文メールの書き方：プロジェクト参加の依頼を断る
こんなシチュエーション、お仕事でありませんか？
プロジェクト参加を依頼されたけど、スケジュールはパンパン。これ以上仕事を請け負うのは無理なので、断るしかありません。でも新しい取り組みに無関心であるとは思われたくない！
英語メールで「プロジェクト参加の依頼を断る」お手本を動画でチェック！
こちらの動画では、伝えるべきメッセージとニュアンスを書き手が考えているところから、以下の内容のメールを実際に英語で書く様子までをご覧いただけます。
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ゲイブリルさん、
ジャスティンと私のプロジェクト参加を検討してくださってありがとうございます。
大変やりがいのありそうな取り組みに参加させていただきたいのは山々なのですが、八月末までスケジュールが完全に埋まっています。
今回は残念ながらご期待に沿えせんが、またなにかありましたら八月以降にお声がけいただければと思います。
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今後の仕事での英語メールの参考になれば幸いです。
[動画内の”CC”ボタンをクリックして英語字幕を表示！]
Hello everybody and welcome to E-mail Picks.
I hope your week has not been too busy.
Today the e-mail message I'd like to show
you how to write is this: Declining a
request to join a project. So yesterday my
colleague Justin and I received an email
from Gabriel. Gabriel is a business
planning expert in our company and he
asked us if our schedules were open to
join his new project. So I talked to
Justin about this and our conclusion was:
unfortunately, no. Well our schedules are
packed until the end of next month. So
Gabriel's project sounds very interesting
and so fun, so we want to join it, but
unfortunately we have other important
projects with deadlines that we cannot
miss. So I'm going to reply to say no.
But in this e-mail, I'd like to
communicate that we really, really wanted
to join the project, and also I want to
say that we are mentally ready to
take on any new projects in the future.
It's just that we only have one body
each right now. So anyway, here goes. Dear Gabriel, Thank you for considering having
Justin and I in your project. As much as
we would like to be part of such an
exciting initiative, our schedules are
packed with deadlines that we cannot
afford to postpone until the end of
August. I'm afraid we cannot help you at
this moment, but we will of course be up
for any challenges after August. Best,
Kyota... Okay so first I thanked Gabriel
for thinking about us by writing "Thank
you for considering having Justin and I
in your project." Then, I communicated that
we really wanted to join by writing "As
much as we would like to be part of such
an exciting initiative..." Okay and then I
communicated that we couldn't join by
writing "Our schedules are packed with
deadlines that we cannot
afford to postpone until the end of
August. Finally I wanted to say that we
do want to join new and exciting
projects in the future,
so I wrote "I'm afraid we cannot help you
at this moment but we will of course be
up for any challenges after August." So
I'm declining his request but I think
I'm communicating the message with a
positive feel. So I think it's easy to
say NO to a task, but it's very important
to communicate what that NO means. Do you
mean "No, I'll never take extra work" or do
you mean "This time, no. But I do want
future opportunities." Okay so think about
that. Anyway, that's it for today. Thank
you for watching and I'll see you next
time.
I hope your week has not been too busy.
Today the e-mail message I'd like to show
you how to write is this: Declining a
request to join a project. So yesterday my
colleague Justin and I received an email
from Gabriel. Gabriel is a business
planning expert in our company and he
asked us if our schedules were open to
join his new project. So I talked to
Justin about this and our conclusion was:
unfortunately, no. Well our schedules are
packed until the end of next month. So
Gabriel's project sounds very interesting
and so fun, so we want to join it, but
unfortunately we have other important
projects with deadlines that we cannot
miss. So I'm going to reply to say no.
But in this e-mail, I'd like to
communicate that we really, really wanted
to join the project, and also I want to
say that we are mentally ready to
take on any new projects in the future.
It's just that we only have one body
each right now. So anyway, here goes. Dear Gabriel, Thank you for considering having
Justin and I in your project. As much as
we would like to be part of such an
exciting initiative, our schedules are
packed with deadlines that we cannot
afford to postpone until the end of
August. I'm afraid we cannot help you at
this moment, but we will of course be up
for any challenges after August. Best,
Kyota... Okay so first I thanked Gabriel
for thinking about us by writing "Thank
you for considering having Justin and I
in your project." Then, I communicated that
we really wanted to join by writing "As
much as we would like to be part of such
an exciting initiative..." Okay and then I
communicated that we couldn't join by
writing "Our schedules are packed with
deadlines that we cannot
afford to postpone until the end of
August. Finally I wanted to say that we
do want to join new and exciting
projects in the future,
so I wrote "I'm afraid we cannot help you
at this moment but we will of course be
up for any challenges after August." So
I'm declining his request but I think
I'm communicating the message with a
positive feel. So I think it's easy to
say NO to a task, but it's very important
to communicate what that NO means. Do you
mean "No, I'll never take extra work" or do
you mean "This time, no. But I do want
future opportunities." Okay so think about
that. Anyway, that's it for today. Thank
you for watching and I'll see you next
time.
