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