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A while back, we asked you to tell us about your experience with getting credit for your work.

In leadership meetings, in team meetings, there's a male colleague who over several years has a habit of getting the last

word in where I've already expressed an idea or an opinion and ultimately what is really maddening about this is that I

participate in these meetings and for some reason he is heard more than I am. He is the one who in the

meeting gets credit from other colleagues for having come up with that idea. I

honestly don't even know if he realizes he's doing it and I'd love to be able to figure out how to address it.

So my strategy was to show up prepared. So when he brought it up I, Jeff, thanks so much for surfacing this.

I'm really glad that you're, you know, seeing the value in this approach we discussed.

Now let me distribute three to five ways we might go about it.

And I handed out a stack of one-pagers it was not an

angry outburst but it was a way to say hey buddy this idea was mine one of you told

the story that we just had to share at length it's about what happened when a guy she worked with

stole the spotlight from her. Here she is. He would often take credit in small doses, but take credit

for other people's work or overhe here someone say something and then at the

meeting where in front of the VP's he would say that instead so that it seemed like

his idea and these things there wasn't enough that were blatant or outright

obtrusive to call out until something happened to me.

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