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