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