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Michael Millward
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Number of Titles: 117

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