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