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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.

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