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