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