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