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