CJ Walmsley

Hello!

I’m a consultant specialising in all aspects of human resources, with a particular focus in the areas of management development, change and employee engagement.

I specialise in; Mediation, Employee Counselling, Workplace Investigations, Performance Management support, and interim HR and Learning and Development management.

How To Be a Decent Boss

We know that the world of organizations and employment is changing, but all managers, in all kinds of business and services, still face the same challenge; how do you get the work done through the efforts of others? Small employers are the norm and it is common to find people dropped into the role of the manager without any guidance about what to do.

In this practical, no-nonsense book, anyone who manages other people, in any kind of business, from supervisor to CEO will find common sense on the typical problems that keep most bosses awake.

How to be a Decent Boss – And Still Get Things Done covers the basics;

This book has emerged out of hundreds of training programmes, meetings and conversations delivered around the world and the thousands of participants who were looking for ideas that might just work.

Recent Blog Posts

A Cents-Less World

At National Australia Bank’s last AGM, CEO Ross McEwan, responded to concerns about ongoing bank closures.  It’s never easy, he said, in an unconvincing, saddened tone, almost persuading me that this was regretted at the highest levels. However, NAB closed 67 branches in the year leading up to that meeting, so it’s clear that in […]

Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer.

Obituary writing is a strange profession. Hugh Massingberd (from the UK’s Telegraph) introduced humour and style into a traditionally dry area of newspaper journalism and believed that his normally conservative paper should celebrate the lives of people who were interesting as well those who were eminent. His obituary collection, Thinker, Failure, Soldier, Jailer contains so […]

I Take My Hat Off

I was in a nice restaurant recently when a man was seated nearby and continued to wear a baseball cap. Didn’t his parents teach him that you never wear a hat at the table? someone asked. Of course, this prompted a familiar conversation called, Don’t People Know This These Days? And then we got stuck […]

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