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