What should Pilar have done before meeting with Miguel to provide him with feedback about his performance

Had him do a self-assessment

Explanation:

Before an employer meets with an employee for a performance feedback meeting they should ask the employee to do a self-assessment. This allows the employee to reflect on their performance and demonstrate initiative by seeing what they did right and wrong and coming up with a strategy on improving further performance. They can then discuss this strategy with the employer to see if it should be implemented.

employers prefer to hire ingenious, resourceful people because ingenious people may be more liable to engage in unethical deportment as they can cerebrate outside of the box