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Michael Millward
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Number of Titles: 117

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