PIP Builder

Build a formal Performance Improvement Plan with clear expectations, milestones, checkpoints, and support commitments.

1Enter employee details and PIP duration.

2Describe performance concerns and set expectations with deadlines.

3Add checkpoints, support offered, and consequences, then copy.

Inputs

Employee Name

Role

PIP Start Date

Duration

Performance Issue

Expectation 1

Deadline

Expectation 2

Deadline

Checkpoint Dates

Support Offered

Consequence if Not Met

Manager Name

PIP Document

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN (PIP)
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Employee:   [Employee Name]
Role:       [Role]
Start Date: [Start Date]
Duration:   30 days
Manager:    [Manager Name]
Date:       3/26/2026

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PURPOSE
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This Performance Improvement Plan has been created to support [Employee Name] in meeting the performance expectations of their role as [Role]. The goal of this plan is to provide clear expectations, support, and a defined timeline for improvement.

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PERFORMANCE CONCERNS
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[Describe the specific performance issues observed, including examples and dates]

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EXPECTATIONS & MILESTONES
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1. [Define expectation 1]

2. [Define expectation 2]

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CHECKPOINT DATES
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[List scheduled check-in dates, e.g. Week 1, Week 2, End of PIP]

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SUPPORT PROVIDED
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[Describe support: coaching, training, resources, etc.]

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CONSEQUENCE IF EXPECTATIONS ARE NOT MET
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Failure to meet the expectations outlined in this plan may result in further disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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SIGNATURES
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By signing below, both parties acknowledge receipt of this PIP.

Employee:  _________________________ Date: ___________
Manager:   _________________________ Date: ___________
HR Rep:    _________________________ Date: ___________

CONFIDENTIAL — For HR and management use only.

Exports for this tool

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN (PIP) ================================================== Employee: [Employee Name] Role: [Role] Start Date: [Start Date] Duration: 30 days Manager: [Manager Name] Date: 3/26/2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PURPOSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This Performance Improvement Plan has been created to support [Employee Name] in meeting the performance expectations of their role as [Role]. The goal of this plan is to provide clear expectations, support, and a defined timeline for improvement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFORMANCE CONCERNS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Describe the specific performance issues observed, including examples and dates] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPECTATIONS & MILESTONES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. [Define expectation 1] 2. [Define expectation 2] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHECKPOINT DATES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [List scheduled check-in dates, e.g. Week 1, Week 2, End of PIP] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT PROVIDED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Describe support: coaching, training, resources, etc.] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONSEQUENCE IF EXPECTATIONS ARE NOT MET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Failure to meet the expectations outlined in this plan may result in further disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SIGNATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ By signing below, both parties acknowledge receipt of this PIP. Employee: _________________________ Date: ___________ Manager: _________________________ Date: ___________ HR Rep: _________________________ Date: ___________ CONFIDENTIAL — For HR and management use only.