My manager takes credit for everything I do 😣

[FIRST NAME GOES HERE], this is one thing that I have heard quite a few times in our focus group sessions that we regularly do with our closest community.

Many women have shared with us: That they deliver the work, do what is required of them, but they don’t always get the credit for it.

If this is also happening with you, you’re not alone in this.

In fact, there are very clear psychological reasons for why people senior to you can sometimes take your limelight…often it’s because your advancement triggers an insecurity in them. You gaining influence or greater credibility than them makes them feel that their own position is threatened.

So you could be doing everything right, and yet not be given the credit you deserve. We all have navigated those complex political dynamics, haven’t we?

And then there are more such things like: “I work in a conservative culture where visible women are penalised.”

Here’s the thing, [FIRST NAME GOES HERE]…

You cannot change your organisation overnight. You cannot change your manager, your industry, or the structural realities of the world you’re operating in – not this week, not by trying harder, not by willing it to be different.

But you can change how visibly you show up within your environment.

You can build your positioning, so your value becomes so crystal clear to you and to people in your organisation that no manager, political dynamics or toxic environment can take that away from you.

You can build your proximity – one strategic relationship at a time…in a way that works within your specific constraints. This could mean expanding your visibility beyond your manager, so your growth is not dependent on one person’s perception of you.

And…

You can build your proof, one communicated contribution at a time in a way that is appropriate for your culture. This could look like communicating outcomes regularly, not defensively, but so there is a consistent and visible record of your impact.

Or posting on LinkedIn, so your leadership and credibility is seen publicly…

Or if your environment doesn’t support you becoming visible on more public platforms, it could be something you do in smaller groups: like conducting knowledge sessions, mentoring a junior, and more.

Every single act of visibility matters.

One person doesn’t hold the key to your career, even though it feels like that. You hold the key to your career.

Inside the Recognized mini course, I’m giving you a clear, systematic, step-by-step framework and a roadmap that makes doing ALL of this 100x easier for you.

And you don’t have to be performative or reckless or naive to do this.

You just have to be so fiercely intentional about what you do that no external environment, a manager’s insecurity or office politics can take that away from you.

I especially built this course keeping in mind the specific constraints, cultural biases and organizational politics that women uniquely navigate at the workplace every single day.

Trust me when I say that these strategies that I am sharing with you inside Recognized have been tested across 10,000+ women for over a decade, so they work. It’s just a matter of figuring out whether you’ll make them work for yourself.

You have tried waiting…you have tried speaking with your manager, you have tried to keep working harder.

But if the dynamics in your workplace never quite seemed to be in your control, maybe it’s time to take a different approach.

Let’s stop worrying about what you can’t control and start taking charge of what you can control.

It’s been 10 days since I announced Recognized, and women who joined us in Week 1 have already begun to take meaningful action towards their visibility.

The mini-course is just priced at ₹1599 right now. Now, I’m not going to throw fake urgency at you, and I won’t pretend this price disappears at midnight.

But what I do know for sure is that right now an important promotion or project that you have been waiting for can be on your plate THIS quarter – just because you said yes to your own visibility.

Because you made a decision to stop waiting. Because you didn’t wait for the perfect conditions for it to feel comfortable, or for “more time” to magically show up.

Recognized takes less than a weekend to go through, and it can change how you see the next quarter and the next year. Will you take that chance on yourself? Will you dare to become visible?

Get Recognized Today!

See you here soon.

Bhavna.