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Communication with your managers at work can be essential to a healthy work environment, and constructive criticism can lead to a long career. When that criticism happens too often though, it may lead to an employee being put on a performance improvement plan, which is a detailed plan of attack for elevating the levels of an employee’s work. Greg Giangrande, career advice expert, spoke about the plans and what it might mean if you are put on one at work.
“I say this anecdotally, but I bet statistically it’s not far off, at least 90% of employees who are put on a performance improvement plan exit the company within that year,” Giangrande told host Larry Mendte. “And that’s because a performance improvement plan means the company is not happy with your performance and documenting what they’re not happy about and what you need to do to improve.”
Giangrande says that not all work plans are negatives and explains the difference: “Different from a normal development plan that you might give to employees for how they can learn and grow and advance their skills; this is we have had discussions about you not performing well now I’m going to document it and if things don’t change pretty dramatically you are likely to lose your job in the next 30, 60, 90 days.”
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