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