...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
Lesson 3 from: What to Say When…Tips and Scripts for Tricky Situations at WorkIlise Benun
...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
Lesson 3 from: What to Say When…Tips and Scripts for Tricky Situations at WorkIlise Benun
Lesson Info
3. ...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
Lessons
Class Introduction
04:20 2...Others Need to Know What You’ve Accomplished
03:00 3...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
01:55 4...Your Boss Is Micromanaging Your Work
02:23 5...You’re Getting Too Much Work
02:15 6...It's Time for Your Annual Review
02:19 7...Your Project Has Missed Its Deadline
02:49 8...Your Boss Is Getting Too Personal
01:59...Co-Workers Are Distracting You from Your Work
02:17 10...Dealing with Co-Workers That Ask Too Many Favors
02:09 11...The Client Doesn’t like Your Work
01:37 12...Your Manager Doesn’t Totally Understand Your Work
01:57 13...There Is a Miscommunication
01:55 14...You Make a Mistake
02:12 15...A Client or Co-Worker Doesn’t Follow Through
02:08 16...You Won't Make Your Deadline
01:57 17...You’re Getting Mixed Messages
02:16 18...Dealing with Unresponsive Colleagues
02:19 19...A Co-Worker Talks Too Much During Meetings
01:50 20...You Think You Deserve a Raise
02:10 21...Networking with Strangers or VIPs
02:31 22...A Meeting Goes off Track
01:49 23...You Need to Leave a Meeting Before It Ends
01:23 24...You Arrive Late to a Meeting
01:33 25Conclusion
03:40Lesson Info
...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
What to say when someone else is getting the credit for a project, and you aren't. So here's the situation. You and your team worked hard on a project. But when it comes to recognition, credit usually goes to the bigmouth on the team, while your contribution seems to go unnoticed. So here's what you may be thinking, and what you should definitely not say, that's not fair, he or she did very little and is getting all the credit. Don't say that. Here's the solution. Figure out who really needs to know what you did, probably not everyone, and find a way to communicate it to them. It could be via email, a phone call, a meeting, or maybe even an informal hallway chat. So here's some things you could say. You could use curiosity and say, are you curious about what happened behind the scenes? Because if so, I'd like to share my role and my perspective in it with you. So what's the easiest way to do that? Or you could use generosity, and say, I have some ideas about how to make the process go ...
even better, if and when you'd like to hear them. Or you could use humility and say, that was a pretty challenging project and I'm so glad I had a chance to work on it. And humor could be appropriate in this situation, and say something like, believe it or not, the whole team contributed to this project. I think my contribution was, of course, the best. But seriously... So the overarching idea here is to focus on the process in general and come up with ideas to improve it, as a way to communicate the essential details of your role in a project, to those who need to know, without becoming a bigmouth, and without disparaging anyone else. Make sense?
Ratings and Reviews
Karlie Jessop
Love the format of this course - it was so great to be able to select a specific situation, and then quickly learn a couple of approaches to each one.
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