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