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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.

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