Coaching practices for Coworker Submitted My Code as His Own

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• When the team debriefs and credit gets handed around, I instantly downplay my part
• I hoard everything until it’s finished and perfect, so I work in total isolation and only ever show the polished result
• I hand work off and somehow it keeps boomeranging back onto my plate
• I handed this to "the team" without naming one clear owner, and now everyone assumes someone else has it
• I extend everyone else this generosity, but when I mess up I go straight to "I’m lazy, I’m a failure, this is just who I am"

Practices that may help

1. Practice owning your contribution in group settings
   In team debrief or credit-distribution conversations, name your specific contribution before someone else summarizes it away.
   Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical
2. Share the process, not just the result
   Show the work in progress to attract collaborators, feedback, and serendipity.
   Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
3. Resist reverse delegation (the "monkey back" problem)
   When a report brings you their monkey, don’t take it — send it back with the next step owned.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
4. Set clear, single-point accountability
   One named owner, an agreed standard, and a check-in cadence set up front — not nagging.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
5. Apply the razor to yourself
   Extend to your own past actions the same charitable interpretation you give others.
   Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain
6. Communicate your theme-day structure to collaborators
   Let colleagues know which days are off-limits for meetings so the structure is sustainable, not secret.
   Theme Days, Made Practical
7. Use language mirroring in writing — match their words, not yours
   When someone describes a problem in their own words, use those words — not your substitute vocabulary.
   Mirroring and Matching, Made Practical
8. Give recognition generously and specifically
   Call out others’ contributions publicly, specifically, and without claiming credit for yourself.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
9. Offer office hours to concentrate collaboration
   Designate one or two open windows per day when collaborators can reach you freely, then protect everything else.
   Maker vs Manager Schedule
10. Resist upward (reverse) delegation
    Don’t let the task you delegated jump back onto your desk the first time it gets hard.
    Effective Delegation, Made Practical

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