Have you ever worked hard on a project only to see a teammate or your supervisor get all the praise? Amy Gallo, contributing editor at Harvard Business Review, gives readers eight tactics on how to come back after such a situation. Her plan of attack includes:

• Don’t be foolhardy. Take time to cool down
• Evaluate the severity of the situation
• Ask why
• Remedy the situation
• Be proactive about averting a repeat of the situation
• Model good credit sharing

How to Respond When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work

There’s nothing more infuriating than someone taking credit for your work. We’ve all had this happen at one point or another: you share an idea with a colleague and then hear him repeat it in a meeting; you stay late to finish a presentation yet your team member accepts all the praise; you lead a long overdue project to completion and your boss tells the higher-ups it was his doing. What the Experts Say We want to believe that our work speaks for itself. Read more…

When this happens, yes there will be a next time, refer to this feature and press on with a sound plan in hand.