Coworker Stealing My Ideas: What Should I Do?

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Hi.

The best way to handle this is to document your ideas through emails.

Also, a discussion with your manager's manager to share your ideas will give the message that you mean business.

Ans: You can have an open discussion with them or ignore them. If the negative attitude continues then plan escalate to your manager

Ans: Dear Sir/ Madam,

Few aspects to look at-

Acknowledge the facts and emotions
Keep it professional
Put your head down and focus on your performance
Focus on networking
Look for a mentor and seek guidance
Understand and navigate the culture of the organization.

Focus on the aspects that can be controlled. Put your energy around the same. You can not control all the aspects at work. The choice is with you. The more you focus on the aspect (in this case favoritism) it will only drain you emotionally. I am sure you must be experiencing the current situation. Hence focus on what you can control which is your work, your performance, and your growth.

Hope this helps. All the best
To Your Success
Thanks and Regards
Ashwini Dasgupta
Author of Confidence Decoded. Is it a Skill or Attitude?

Ans: Dear Anonymous,
Was this a sudden change or has it been like this since you joined the company?
Do others who report to the same manager feel the same like you do? If not, you may start looking at what gap exists in what you do and perceive and fix that. Also, it would be mature to actually have a one-on-one meeting the manager and take an honest feedback on your work. That will give you an idea on what your performance level has been. Have you been meetings targets, deadlines and living up to the expectations the company has of you when you were hired?
You need to understand that the manager is also answerable to someone, right? Request for that one-on-one and be open-minded and LISTEN. That meeting will not be to defend your actions but to actually listen and it will give you a good indicator as to whether things seems unreasonable or if there is a lack that you must fill.

All the best!
Anu Krishna
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Ans: Hi!!

Thankfully this is your co-worker and not your boss. When bosses do this you can do nothing about it....when the co worker does it then you know that you should never share your ideas with them ever again. In the cut throat competitive world why will they share the credits for it with you...!T he way you have asked the question, it shows that you are a good person, good people should not change because of the bad people in the world. So my advice to you is this ...the coworker is selling your ideas.. the boss is liking them, so have faith in yourself and your ideas.
Every bad experience happens so that you become wiser.
Become wise do not share your ideas with people who don't give you credit.

Other option is you talk to him/her assertively, one on one and ask why he/she did this....calling your idea silly and then repackaging it and presenting before the boss. Next time he/she will be careful not to do this to you.