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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d say she and I are probably the star performers on our team. We have different strengths but I notice that she is ambitious and competent although very very competitive.

I was feeling pretty good about my career progress until I discovered that she is several steps ahead of me in getting noticed and developing influence.  Our team recently started using Asana and while we were all figuring it out and learning to use it, she jumps in and decides to be the Asana expert. Now she is creating templates and boards for everyone. And our boss is eating it up.

I’m so annoyed!! I don’t want to use her templates as I make great templates on my own! [/quote]

Adjective choice says more about the person making the description than the person being described. Sounds like you are the competitive one - you no longer feel good about your career progress because you are comparing yourself to her? So weird to me. Your career progress should not be diminished by another’s progress.

Taking initiative to become an expert on something everyone is learning and has to use and then sharing templates to help others sounds collaborative to me, not competitive. Sounds like it was something you could have done, but didn’t and now you’re annoyed at yourself.[/quote]

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