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