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