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