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[quote=Anonymous]I've had that happen. I was starting a project on an area that overlapped with another unit. I invited/requested collaboration three times. They never once responded. The day before a high-level presentation of my report, they cried outrage that we dare work on something that effects them without consulting them. We, of course, welcomed their input now that they were finally interested in participating, but their inputs were not well researched and mostly unusable. They inserted their name *on top* of ours.

OP, I think your boss handled this badly. Your high-level peer should not be reformatting a power-point for you. I get that you only did as you were told, but your boss shouldn't have asked for that, and you should have gently pushed back with "oh, I don't want to trouble Bob with administrative tasks. We'll get the template and sort it out." The template for the company needs to be on a shared drive that all business units can access.

I'd thank your colleague for sharing the template, take his name off the cover, and insert a "thank you" slide at the end where you give him a shout out for being so helpful. I wouldn't give him a heads up on that either - it's completely unnecessary. [/quote]

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