11 September 2026
A performance plan is a document before it is a conversation
Almost everyone responds to being put on one emotionally, and almost nobody responds to it in writing. The writing is the part that matters.
PIP Your Boss
Notes on performance reviews, managing upward, and what to do when the process is being used on you rather than for you.
24 July 2026
Your one-to-one has turned into a status meeting
If your manager could get the same information from a spreadsheet, the thirty minutes is being wasted, and it is partly your job to fix that.
3 June 2026
Feedback you cannot act on
"Be more strategic" is not feedback. It is a feeling, and there is a polite way to make somebody turn a feeling into an instruction.