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