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Performance management · PIP design

A manager brings you a PIP draft with milestones no one could hit in the window — it's clearly a paper trail for a decision they've already made. As the HR partner, walk me through your response.

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I'd name what I'm seeing, privately and without accusation: these milestones aren't achievable in the window, so this reads as documentation for a decision already made — which cre…

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Concepts behind this questionPIPs and paper trails: performance intervention done fairlyManaging up: pushing back, then committing
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