Your slide, their name
You watched your analysis presented as someone else's idea.
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How to deal with someone taking credit for your work
Make your contribution visible and address credit-taking without a feud.
A course for when someone presents your work as their own. It covers checking what actually happened, keeping a simple record, adding your part in the moment, raising it directly in a calm and specific way, making your work visible as you go, and when to involve your manager.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
A colleague keeps presenting my work as theirs in meetings and to our manager. I want to handle it calmly, make my contribution visible, and stop it happening again without looking petty.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
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Four things you can do before the course exists.
Useful on their own. The course is for when you want the whole skill, not just the first move.
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Write down exactly what was said
Before reacting, note the words used. 'We found that cancellations dropped' may be loose team language; 'I found' about your analysis is a different matter. Original example note: 'Tuesday 10am review, slide 4 was my model, presented as theirs.' Facts first; guesses about motive can wait or be left out.
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Add your part in the moment
A calm line works without accusing anyone. Original example: 'To add to that, when I built the model I also found the drop was concentrated in March. Happy to walk through the method.' It puts your name next to the work and shows you know it in depth.
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Raise it privately with a request
Original example: 'In the review you presented the cancellation model as yours. I built it. Next time, can you say it was my analysis, or let me present that part?' Name the event and the change you want, and leave out judgements about their character.
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Make the next piece visible early
Send a short note to your manager when you finish something, and put your name on shared documents. Original example: 'Finished the cancellation model today, notes attached.' A dated record protects you and makes later credit-taking harder.
- Best for
- Work relationships
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- What happened: a meeting, an email to leadership, a review, or a pattern of all three?
- Is the person a peer, a senior colleague, or your own manager?
- Have you said anything to them about it yet?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You worry about looking petty
Saying something feels like making a fuss over one meeting.
It keeps happening
Once was an oversight; the fourth time is a pattern.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06What actually happened
Shared work, careless wording or deliberate claiming, and how to tell them apart.
Keeping a record
Dated drafts, emails and notes that show your part without building a dossier.
In the moment
A calm line in the meeting that adds your part to the record.
The direct conversation
Talking to the colleague privately with specifics and a clear request.
Visibility habits
Updates, shared documents and introductions that name who did what.
Involving your manager
When to escalate and how to frame it around the work, not the person.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Separate fact from assumption
Distinguish deliberate credit-taking from loose wording or genuinely shared work.
Raise it calmly
Say what happened and what you want next time, without accusing.
Make your work visible
Build habits that attach your name to your work as it happens.
Ideas this course corrects
Speaking up always looks petty
A calm, factual statement about your own work is ordinary professional communication. Tone and specifics matter more than whether you say it.
Good work speaks for itself
Decision-makers often see only the presentation. Making contributions visible is part of doing the work, not boasting.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
How to deal with someone taking credit for your work: what can I do today?
Write down exactly what was said. Before reacting, note the words used. 'We found that cancellations dropped' may be loose team language; 'I found' about your analysis is a different matter. Original example note: 'Tuesday 10am review, slide 4 was my model, presented as theirs.' Facts first; guesses about motive can wait or be left out. Add your part in the moment. A calm line works without accusing anyone. Original example: 'To add to that, when I built the model I also found the drop was concentrated in March. Happy to walk through the method.' It puts your name next to the work and shows you know it in depth. Raise it privately with a request. Original example: 'In the review you presented the cancellation model as yours. I built it. Next time, can you say it was my analysis, or let me present that part?' Name the event and the change you want, and leave out judgements about their character. Make the next piece visible early. Send a short note to your manager when you finish something, and put your name on shared documents. Original example: 'Finished the cancellation model today, notes attached.' A dated record protects you and makes later credit-taking harder.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course for when someone presents your work as their own. It covers checking what actually happened, keeping a simple record, adding your part in the moment, raising it directly in a calm and specific way, making your work visible as you go, and when to involve your manager. It sits under Work relationships in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
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Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
A colleague keeps presenting my work as theirs in meetings and to our manager. I want to handle it calmly, make my contribution visible, and stop it happening again without looking petty.