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