The Performance Improvement Guide (PIG) is published by the US Coast Guard Leadership Development Center, in collaboration with the Office of Performance Management (CG-0954). The Coast Guard strives to be the best-led and best-managed organization in government. That's a never-ending challenge for all Coast Guard people. This guide is an aid to help you respond to the challenge; its contents were selected to involve employees, enhance team effectiveness, ease problem-solving, facilitate better meeting management, improve processes, increase customer satisfaction, and improve overall performance to produce superior mission results. .