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