A Practical System for Building Trust, Managing Performance and Leading Your First Team
Have you recently been promoted to manager or supervisor? Are you responsible for leading a team but unsure how to establish credibility, delegate effectively, handle difficult conversations and get the best out of your people?
The First-Time Manager’s 90-Day Playbook, by Peter Agyemang Duah, is a practical guide designed to help you approach your first three months with greater clarity, confidence and structure.
Instead of leaving you to figure everything out through trial and error, this playbook gives you a step-by-step framework for understanding your team, setting priorities, building trust, and establishing effective management habits.
What You’ll Learn
How to transition from individual contributor to team lead.
How to build trust and establish clear expectations.
How to understand your team’s strengths, challenges and working relationships.
How to conduct productive one-to-one meetings.
How to delegate responsibilities while maintaining accountability.
How to give constructive feedback and handle difficult conversations.
How to address performance problems fairly and professionally.
How to motivate employees and support their development.
How to organise your first 30, 60 and 90 days as a manager.
How to establish a sustainable management routine for long-term success.
Practical Tools You Can Use
This resource includes practical exercises, workplace scenarios, conversation scripts, checklists, planning templates and progress-review tools to help you turn the guidance into action.
Who Is This Book For?
This playbook is ideal for newly promoted managers, first-time supervisors, team leaders and professionals taking responsibility for managing people for the first time.
Whether you lead a small team, work in an office or manage people in a growing organisation, you’ll find practical ideas to help you lead more deliberately and effectively.
Stop guessing your way through management. Start building the skills, habits and systems your team needs to succeed.
