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