Hi David here this is a bonus Saturday episode of stories of our times

essentially it's an act of commiseration you expected to get away to foreign crimes this year.

I expected to get away to foreign crimes this year.

And most of us never made it.

A special corner of Sicily, one with Alfresco dining, lemon granita with your breakfast

briosh and a dip in the pool after Siesta was left untenanted. I was here instead. You were here. And so the word

stocation became ubiquitous. All of a sudden a B&B in Beckles became became a top booking if you could get it and millions of Brits began to think the unthinkable that's why one of Britain's biggest outdoorsy outfits reg Regatta, reported a 750% increase year on year in tent sales.

John Lewis, camping equipment sales were up 243%.

Some of you are about to go.

Some of you have already been

and can tell the first lot what they're about to experience,

which is... Well, you're here.

You're listening to stories of our times

and the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm David Aronovich.

Today, under canvas in the Great British Outdoors. Bad management costs employers around 84 billion pounds a year.

Good management is a skill set, not just a job title.

It needs to be recognised, nurtured and practiced.

And yet 82% of new managers in the UK are promoted without formal management training.

At the Chartered Management Institute, we're working to change that.

Imagine if you made it your business to change that too. Take action.

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