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