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