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Radical Candor: Communication at Work · 2025-03-12 · 39 min · 6,739 words

When the PIP Feels Disingenuous: The Ethics of Managing Out 7 | 11

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Hello everybody and welcome to the Radical Canner Podcast. I'm Kim Scott. I'm Jason Rozov. And I'm Amy Sandler. Today we are answering a listener's question about a challenging situation that touches on several important aspects of radical candor. So I'll jump right in. This person writes quote Hello. I'm a middle manager on a small team and I have one report.

My manager. who is the director of our department had my role previously. So my report used to report to my manager. My manager asked me to put my report on a performance improvement plan.

Okay. I met with the HR director individually And along with my manager. And we began the informal stage of the PIP in order to give my report the opportunity to meet the expectations for the role. While documenting everything to provide to central HR for formal PIP.

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