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