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