Six versions of this moment, and the exact words to correct each one -- live, in writing, or after the fact.
You just heard your own idea come out of someone else's mouth, credited to them, in front of everyone.
Maybe it was careless. Maybe it wasn't. Either way, the room just heard the wrong version of who did the work.
The fix isn't a bigger reaction -- it's the right five seconds, in the right place, said calmly.
Here's the part most people don't realize: correcting credit in the moment it happens is almost always safer than waiting. Silence is what lets the wrong version become the version everyone remembers.
But correcting it live in a meeting needs completely different words than fixing an email that already went to leadership -- so winging it means guessing which of six versions you're in and hoping the right line shows up under pressure. This gives you the version that's actually happening, the exact line to say, and what to do when they don't just let it go.
This isn't one conversation, it's six. Correcting it live in a meeting needs a different opening line than fixing a written recap after the fact. Each response already includes the likely pushbacks and exactly how to handle them.
That's one of the six responses inside. Because the first sentence is rarely the hard part.
Every line in this guide was rewritten until it sounded like something a person would actually say in the room -- tested against how credit actually gets corrected, not how a training video says it should.
Which one sounds like your situation?
One PDF. Six situations, one per section, plus a Quick Deployment page. Open it on your phone and go.
Because you stayed calm and specific when most people either say nothing or say too much.
Right now this is a thirty-second addition in a meeting or a two-line reply in a thread. Wait a few more cycles of the same colleague getting the credit and it hardens into the story everyone already believes, including your own manager -- a much bigger conversation, from a much weaker position. $7 for the exact words to a correction you're already going to make anyway, either calmly this week or defensively three months from now. If today's the day you finally say something, that's cheaper than another quarter of quietly keeping score.
P.S. If you skipped to the bottom -- your coworker just took credit for something you built, and you don't want to look petty or let it slide either. $7. Instant download. 6 responses, one for every version of this, plus the After Plan for the next 48 hours. If it's not the right fit, we'll swap it.
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