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Michael Millward
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Number of Titles: 119

Michael Millward is the creator and host of Abeceder Quotation Conversations.

During a human resources career which started in 1981 in the UK Michael has held leadership roles in, start-ups, small, medium sized businesses, and large blue chip multinationals organisations, in joint venture, e-commerce, government, hi-tech, manufacturing, mining, major construction projects retail distribution, travel, hospitality, financial and service sectors, across the world.

In 2004 Michael returned to the UK and established Abeceder a provider of employment related, information, products, services, and expertise.

The Abeceder family now includes:

• Abeceder H2R a comprehensive HR software and HR support service that covers every aspect of every stage of the employer, employee relationship from hiring to retiring.
• WorkPlaceLearningCentre.co.uk – an independent, multi brand, multi format learning resources and training courses web shop
• workworkwork.works – an employees’ guide to employment

Michael holds a MSc in Human Resource Management from the University of Wales and is a Chartered Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). For many years Michael was a volunteer branch chair and member of the Institutes National Council.

Browse all by Michael Millward
Living to Your Values
Highlighting and Understanding Hidden Disabilities
Acceptance, Courage and Wisdom
Preparing Employees for Retirement
Unconventional Candidates
It's the Way We Do It Here
Social Class: A Prolific Form of Discrimination
Talking Truth to Power: Lessons from Cancer
Success is a Journey, Not a Destination
I Will Either Find a Way or Make a Way
Learning in the Workplace
Identifying Employee Talent
The Challenge of Making Change Permanent
Is Our Approach to Work Working?
Pleasure plus Meaning Equals Happiness
Mental Health and Purposeful Diversity
Redundancy: Employment Ends so can Life Begin
The Benefits of Out-of-the-Box Thinking
The Business Benefits of Thinking Like an Ant
Teamwork: Individual Commitment to a Group Effort
Using PR Techniques in Employee Communications
The Role of Software in Change Management
Fall down seven times, stand up eight times
The Secret for Improving Your Time Management
The Secret to Being Happy at Work
Emotional Intelligence for Managers
Business Approach to Mental Health and Well Being
The Important Employees are the Ones You Keep
Change the Way You Communicate
Employee Engagement
Understanding how Millennial’s and Gen Z Work
The Map is Not the Territory
Learning From Bad Times and Negative Experiences
Diversity is a Fact – Inclusion is an Act
Love as a Mindset
Successful Probation Periods
Finding What You Need to Succeed
Mindset over Matter
Targeted Purpose Motivates Employee Performance
Manage Employees Who Care
We Decide How We See the World
How Networks Work
Are You Weird or Just Wired Differently
Effective Change Leadership
A Mystery Artist Helps Demystify Work Life Balance
Can Organizations Treat People as Individuals?
The Skills Shortage and an Underused Talent Pool
Employee Empowerment is doomed, unless…
Understanding how to be Inclusive
Creating Work that Works for Your Employees
Automation of Work
Have You Defined What Good Work Means for You?
The Role of the Manager as a Worrier
Importance of Defining What Success Means for You
Strategies for Communicating with Employees
Team Building with a Focus on Quality
Moving Forward with Life & Work After Bereavement
The Environment is Sending Invoices to the Economy
What Makes Workers Creative
Better Leaders Do Not Say Should or Should Not
Lessons for Leaders on Meetings
Curiosity Fuels Collaboration and Innovation
Disclosure of Sexuality in the Workplace
Using Volunteering to Achieve Employee Development
Homelessness and Work
How to Create Change
Happy Employees Lead to Happy Customers
You are Unique and You Only Live Once
CSR and the Way You do Business
The Benefit of Making Mistakes
Work and Mental Well Being
Practical Ways to Support a Bereaved Employee
Fertility Journeys and Work
How to Make Things Happen
Can There be Many Right Ways to do Something?
Who am I before the world told me who to be?
Reinventing the Future
What Matters Most: Credit or Results?
Is There Only One Right Way?
How Belonging Improves Performance
Instilling Culture in a Totally Remote Workforce
Finishing Tasks When We Don’t Want to Start
You Need Trust to Build an Empire
First Steps to Achieving a Change
Starting Something New
Thinking Straight When Moving Faster than Sound
Learning How to Balance Life and Work
When Leaders Don’t Listen
Ways of Learning
The Benefits of Balanced Teams
Being Authentic at Work
Workplace Democracy on Demand
Relationship Between Behaviour and Results
Is Trying to Fit in Worth the Effort
Overcome a Historical Lack of Corporate Diversity
Implementing a Plan Requires Change
The Origins of the Four-Day Work Week
Job Rotation: Employee Development Tool
Workplace Learning 
Understanding Ethical Leadership
Understand Your Emotional Buying Behaviour
A Model for Creating Psychological Safety at Work
Giving Employees Freedom to Shine
It Only Takes 1 Person to Start the Ball Rolling
Politics at Work
Employers and Mental Health for LGBT+ Employees
How Leadership Evolves as Organisations Change
See the World as it is, not how you Want it to be
How to Listen to Rarely Heard Voices
Put in Before you Take Out
Ensuring Everyone Understands What is Possible
Network and Networking
Improving Your Recruitment Decisions
Planning and Strategy Development
Kindness is in Our Gift
Crazy is Not Always Wrong
Just Do It! But Carefully…
Don’t Need to Deal With This With an Unhappy Mind
Success or Happiness: Is There a Difference?
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