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