I have a very simple rule that I adopted when I first became a manager, and it has served me well. I won't ever fire someone for performance unless I have expli

I have a very simple rule that I adopted when I first became a manager, and it has served me well. I won't ever fire someone for performance unless I have explicitly said to them. `If you don't do the following things in the given time frame you will be fired` I require myself to explicitly state they will loose their job, and I require to have an explicit list of exactly what needs to be done and a fixed time frame for it to be done. I feel if I as a manager can't do that, then the real issue is a failure in management not a failure in the employee. While I have still had to fire plenty of people for performance even with this rule. I can also say that I have had multiple people actually improve their performance and get off the PiP which as I understand from talking to other managers is not a common occurrence.