So how do you speak up without letting frustration take over? Here are three moves. . First, get your contribution into the conversation. Take a breath, plant your feet, slow your delivery. “I’m glad this worked. I developed that approach and used it to reach quota.

Let me share what helped us get there.” You’ve established your role and given the team something useful. And if other people help, name them. Be as accurate with their contribution as you want them to be with yours. [00:01:00] Second, make your work easy to trace.

Save the proposal. Send the progress update. Document the results. . Your manager might see the win without seeing everything that created it. Give them the full picture. You shouldn’t have to campaign for credit every day, but making your contribution visible is a skill worth building.

Third, if it keeps happening, address the pattern. An oversight leaves room for clarification. But when you’ve already spoken privately and nothing changes, bring specific examples to your manager or whoever you’re working for. ” I’ve addressed this directly, and it happened again.

How do we correct the record and clarify ownership going forward?” Then agree on the next step and when you’ll follow up. Squad, here’s your knowledge nugget. You don’t have to make somebody else smaller to make your contribution visible. Jenny’s results still count. Somebody else getting the spotlight doesn’t erase what you delivered, and swallowing your frustration forever won’t help people understand your value.

Before your next meeting, finish this sentence: “My contribution was blank, and the result was blank.” Practice it. Calm voice, clear [00:02:00] facts, no apology. An example would be, “My contribution was I rolled the calls until we got that prospect on the line, and the result was we closed them. They are now a client.”

Again, practice it. Calm voice, clear facts, no apology. You can celebrate the team and still let your work carry your name. And squad, if you’re dealing with that at work where someone’s kinda stepping on your toes or even a business where, someone’s trying to infringe on your credit, and you just don’t know, and you’re a little bit stuck, th- give me a call.

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Again, timetoshinetoday.com/H-O-P for Hour of Power. So until next week, let’s [00:03:00] keep grinding in the right way, the healthy way. Let’s lean into our ultimate human potential and just keep serving. I absolutely love your guts.