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