The UK playbook for professionals facing a PIP, a capability process, or a settlement offer. Built to use in the next 72 hours, not after they have run out.
Built from 30 years on both sides of the table. Reviewed by a UK employment solicitor. Tools, not advice. Plans, not panic.
When the process starts, the company already knows its next three moves. You are reading the letter for the first time. That gap is where most of the outcome is decided.
A PIP or capability process is usually the first formal step towards ending your employment. Reading it as feedback costs you the time you need.
What you sign, what you reply, and what you save in the first three days shapes everything that follows. Most people lose those hours to shock.
The right documents, sent in the right order, are worth more than the right solicitor at the wrong time. Build it before you need it.
Each one is a self-serve pack of templates, scripts and worksheets. Bought with personal money, used the same day, built for the UK system.
Raise a formal grievance that builds the paper trail to do the work in any later claim. For the professional who has decided to put the problem on the record, properly.
For the PIP that landed today. What to do in the first 60 minutes, the first 24 hours, and the first 72. It tells you what to do and why, without panic.
Handed a settlement agreement and want to push back. Built around the gap between what employers offer first and what they will pay if pushed.
30 years inside the corporate machine. I have managed people out. I have been managed out. The playbook is the same on both sides. The difference is that one side has it written down and the other is reading it for the first time.
"This is that playbook, written for the person on the wrong end of it."