Sometimes a person ask you a question and you are not willing to answer the question. The reason of not answering the question can be as follows:
- Related to the personal life
- It can also be your choice for not sharing your views with other person
- The answer can hurt the person who asked the question
- It may be painful for you to discuss
- You may not be feeling comfortable to answer that question
In the situation, when you are not willing to answer the asked question to the respondent you can say that " I'd prefer not to answer it".
- Flip that question back to the person who ask you that question
- You can also stay silent for the moment if you do not want to answer the question
- You can also choose the choice of not giving straight forward answer
In the company, the BOSS having personal question which are related to your personal matter and life. In such type of situation, the employee can refuse to answer that question through reply to the e-mail.
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Hi Suvneen!
ReplyDeleteThe topic of your blog is very interesting and is commonly faced situation. Sometimes we are asked the question we don't want to reply. At such uncomfortable situations we want to avoid the question by directly saying "no comments", but this may be a rude way esp. in the business environment. Avoiding questions we don't want to reply is a art which you have discussed it very efficiently like you said, we may postpone the reply or divert the attention of the questioner to some other questions etc.