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hi josh hi amanda what are we talking about today i thought we talked about performance improvement plans always something that's scary to employees and i thought we could tell connecticut employees some things to do to maybe make this process just a little bit more easy or palatable for them what do you have for us yeah this is hard and i'm not going to sugarcoat that nobody wants to receive a performance improvement plan and it's generally not a good sign but it doesn't have to be a sign of imminent doom either so here are my five steps if you receive a performance improvement plan from your employer number one keep breathing this is going to be okay you're not the first person to receive a performance improvement plan you're not going to be the last um and you are going to get through this one way or another step number two and this sometimes is not obvious read the performance improvement plan if you don't have a physical document ask for one you want this stuff in writing and then evaluate it is this something you can do are these expectations fair are the recitations of your past performance accurate if not that could be a sign of something more nefarious something more problematic number three dedicate yourself to completing what's in the plan if you possibly can come up with a strategy right and work with your manager to achieve that strategy right you want to be able to complete the plan if possible and at a minimum you want to be able to show you did everything reasonable and in your control to try to complete it even if you think it's unreasonable even if you think it's unfair even if you think you're being set up to fail there's no harm in trying number four stay professional at all times if the performance improvement plan is actually a way for your employer to try to manage you out of your draw to try to set you up to fail to try to come up with an excuse to terminate your employment don't give them an excuse don't respond by swearing at anybody by yelling at anybody by treating anybody other than in a fully professional fashion even if you feel like you're being goaded into it your job is to remain as professional as you possibly can also dedicating yourself to being the best employee you possibly can and step number five and these don't necessarily happen in order but the fifth thing you should do is to evaluate the broader context ask yourself if you are being treated not just unfairly but potentially illegally so ask what's been happening recently do i have a new boss and has that boss been treating me differently because of my age or my race or my sex have i just disclosed a disability to my employer have i just taken fmla leave or told him...