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