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