Practical to Powerful: Performance Improvement Plans

We must kill them until they are dead.

Let me just be direct.

It is time to kill the “Performance Improvement Plan.”

No one is fooled. No one thinks it is designed to actually help an employee improve.

The Performance Improvement Plan, or “PIP” is very simply a way for a company to document your lack of performance so they can justify your termination.

It’s odd, of course, since nearly all companies remind their employees on a regular basis that they are “at will,” implying no justification is needed to terminate employment at any time.

Nevertheless, the PIP remains a nearly ubiquitous presence in American corporate life and is today as worthless, and even damaging, as it has ever been.

We’ll fix that in the next 15 minutes.

Voiceover of Chapter (Again, please excuse my Darth Yoda voice)