PIPed? Of Course, You're Finished

 PIPs - that is, Proposals to Improve Performance - are becoming standard in employee management. Because they are relatively new, at least in being so pervasive, many employees don't understand their implications. 

At the top of the list of those is this: You are probably finished, even if you (rare) complete everything on the check list. You might hold onto the job  (unlikely) but even if you do you are going nowhere in the organization. As soon as PIPed, begin searching for another job. In professional services, such as law and management consulting, allegedly they are being leveraged as a legal cost-effective way to lay off staff without appearing that a reduction-in-force is taking place. 

In Insider, former Vice President of Human Resources Chris Williams confirms that business common sense about PIPs. Get it, you are being forced out. 

The reason does not necessarily have to do with work per se. It could be attitude or communications style or having rubbed someone in power the wrong way.

Professional anonymous networks are jam-packed with those PIPed naively asking what that means. Clearly it means that you should consider yourself on short time in that organization.

The good news is that it's turning out that those PIPed often succeed in other settings. They were just a bad fit in the previous culture.

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