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Michael Millward
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Number of Titles: 118

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