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