Personal Improvement Plans (PIP)

A personal improvement plan is a structured and individualized strategy designed to help someone identify and work towards achieving their personal goals, close gaps in fulfilling their role, enhance skills, and develop in areas they want to improve in order to grow and reach their full potential.

A personal improvement plan (PIP) can also be used when an employee is not fulfilling their duties, meaning not delivering on expectations.

A PIP might be used as a tool to ensure that the employee makes the necessary changes to deliver on expectations and to clearly communicate any consequences if defined objectives are not met within the defined time.

What a PIP is not

Unacceptable behavior: A PIP is not suited to handle policy violations or cases when a VSHNeer behaves severely against VSHN values. If direct feedback to the VSHNeer in question doesn’t help, usually the Disciplinary Process applies here.
Improvement on Personal KPIs: VSHN does not measure individual performance as KPIs, but instead favors using metrics and goals at the role or team level, where we collaboratively contribute to shared goals. When a VSHNeer fulfills their role, as assessed by the Delegator and the stakeholders, we’re good. We’re not constantly setting higher KPIs to increase performance on a personal level.