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