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