Freelancer gets no respect at work

DEAR HARRIETTE: I work freelance on a project that uses several teams to complete work. I was asked to provide creative guidance to one of the teams, and it is proving to be difficult. These people do not believe they need to answer to me.

My guess is that the manager of the whole project neglected to tell them that they should listen to me. As a result, whenever I provide feedback, they rarely inc…