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Michael Millward
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Number of Titles: 117

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