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