PIP Survival Checklist
A free day-by-day plan for your first 14 days on a PIP. Start here.
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prepared, not panicked
Plain-language plans, workbooks, and one-on-one defense for employees on a PIP, from an HR leader who spent 14 years in the rooms where these decisions get made.
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Get the free PIP Survival Checklist
A day-by-day plan for your first 14 days on a PIP. What to read before you react, what to document, and what not to sign, from an HR leader who sat in the room when these decisions got made.
14 yrsinside HR, the employer side of the table
0employer contacts, ever
Freeto start, the 14-day survival checklist
How it works
Read before you react
Plain-language guides on PIPs, documentation, and what employers can and cannot do, so your first move is informed, not emotional.
Build your record
Day-by-day documentation habits and tools structured for real pressure, not generic templates.
Choose your path with facts
Perform hard, negotiate an exit, or escalate, decided from a documented position, with help matched to your stakes.
Help matched to your stakes
The PIP Shield
The self-serve playbook: workbook, scripts, and the fight-negotiate-exit decision tree.
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Document review plus a recorded 60-minute strategy call and a tailored response plan.
$450
View productWhy trust Steven
- 14 years inside HR across a 700-person aerospace plant, a 1,200-person union manufacturing plant, and a JV restructuring in tech: building the systems, writing the performance plans, and sitting in the rooms where hiring and termination decisions actually got made.
- Written for employees, not employers: no corporate filters and no advice designed to protect the company instead of you. Your employer is never contacted.
- Specific, not generic: every guide and product is built on real workplace situations. If it doesn't apply to your situation, we say so.