Peer Conflict
Employee
Direct
Addressing a peer who took credit for your work
A colleague presented your analysis to leadership without naming you.
Strategy
Go to the peer first, once, in private. Assume it was carelessness rather than theft, and fix the forward-looking process so it cannot repeat quietly.
I want to raise something before it turns into a thing. In Tuesday's review, the Q3 analysis went up without my name on it. I built that model. I am not asking you to walk it back publicly. I am asking that on the next one we go in together, or the attribution is in the deck.
If they push back
If they get defensive: "I hear that it was not intentional. That is why I came to you directly instead of anywhere else. Can we agree on how the next one gets credited?"
What not to say
- You stole my work
- This is so typical of you
- I am going to talk to your manager
- Whatever, it is fine
Follow-up
Thanks for talking it through. For the November review, let us both be on the invite and put the contributors slide up front.