How To Protect Your Credit
This article reprinted from the Debra Condren Weblog. The original article can be found online:
https://ambitchous.typepad.com/ambition_is_not_a_dirty_w/2008/11/how-to-protect-your-credit.html
© 2009, Debra Condren
Dear Debra: We agree on roles and responsibilities in our team meetings. Then two people, in cahoots go off, change the rules, put their names on our team’s work, and hog credit. Later, after they’ve already been recognized as project drivers by supervisors, they play dumb when we, their team members, try and call them on it. How can we stop sneaky, passive aggressive credit-stealing behavior without coming across as whiners?
Before any group project begins, get explicit written agreements that specify how responsibilities, financial rewards, and credit will be apportioned.
This
doesn’t mean that you make others sign a contract. It doesn’t mean that you
have to call in the head of Human Resources or your attorney. It does mean that
you are instrumental in getting discussions going about roles that will be
played and how the spoils will be shared. You can then get it in writing
yourself, through memos or e-mails that YOU write and send.
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