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