Bain & Company At an MBB and just been placed on a PIP in consulting, and was given feedback on four main development areas. Any suggestions on the following:

1) Getting clarity on an ambiguous problem - try to understand the objective, layout the unclear parts, or at least know what needs to be clear for you to have a solution, have a point of view, and clarify with the PL

Any suggestions that works for folks here on this? Boston Consulting Group McKinsey & Company Strategy& Oliver Wyman Bain & Company

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Literally get a piece of paper and write it down. Not a computer cause that leads to more notifications and distractions. Piece of paper

Take the unclear part, break it into things that you know, things that you are unsure of and questions that you need answered to get clarity.

Take those questions, develop action (aka research or analytics) plans to solve them, take them to your manager and align. Then execute

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Pretty sure they just did.

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Feedback seems to be focused on increasing structure and process to the way you approach problems - would focus on getting a good process and ensuring you follow that closely.

PIPs are generally politically driven though , suggest looking for better opportunities in a different company

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Hey M1! Do you mind sharing abit about your process for problem solving? A bit of a broad question, but wondering if you’ve got any tactical advice?

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Pretty much how you would do a case interview

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