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