DAVE DOES MANAGEMENT

**DAVE DOES MANAGEMENT**

*How not to cock up managing people.*

**Strong language. Sensible advice.**

Congratulations! Youve been promoted into management. Youve got a new job title, a bigger pile of responsibilities and absolutely no idea why everyone suddenly expects you to have all the bloody answers.

Welcome to management, where common sense occasionally goes on holiday, difficult conversations become Olympic-level avoidance exercises, and somebody in senior management genuinely believes a motivational PowerPoint will solve everything.

In *Dave Does Management*, our increasingly bewildered hero discovers what really happens when youre put in charge of people. From recruitment disasters, disastrous probation reviews and employees who test the limits of human patience, to sickness absence, disciplinary hearings, grievances, workplace conflict and senior managers who couldnt organise a piss-up in a brewery, Dave discovers that managing people is considerably more complicated than simply telling them what to do.

Along the way, he encounters the joys of employment law, the dangers of making decisions before gathering evidence, the importance of supporting employees properly, and the spectacular consequences of ignoring problems until theyve grown teeth and hired a solicitor.

But this isnt another dry management textbook filled with corporate jargon, pointless diagrams and advice from someone who hasnt dealt with a real employee since 1997