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