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