How to Handle People Who Take Credit for Your Work (Without Losing Control)

Let’s get straight to it.

Someone takes credit for your work. It ticks you off. And it feels personal.

You start wondering what else people aren’t seeing.

You start imagining worst-case scenarios.

You feel yourself slipping into frustration and self-doubt.

I’ve coached a lot of professionals through this, and here’s the truth:

The credit-taker isn’t the problem.

How you respond is what determines the outcome.

This kind of thing will happen your entire career — on the job, in nonprofits, in volunteer work, in the church. You aren’t going to escape it.

But you can learn to handle it like a…

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