Mike Klein
Mike Klein is Principal of Changing The Terms, an internal and social communication consultancy based in the Netherlands. Mike is the Past Chair of the International Association of Business Communicators in Europe-Middle East-North Africa and the author of the Happeo research series on the Present and Future of Internal Communication.
“I see the world kind of black-and-white”
So says Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old climate change activist. Thunberg has become a global media sensation by sharing a direct if alarming message with politicians, business...
Iceland has been getting a lot of attention lately - partly because of its increasing popularity as a travel destination and also because of recent tumultuous economic, political and geological events (remember the eruption that grounded European...
Increase impact. Reduce noise. Become more relevant. Integrate platforms. Create more connectedness.
These are some of the demands that internal communicators are hearing most loudly these days.
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It is not news that the world of internal communication is changing.
But how is it changing? And can IC practitioners help drive that change instead of being driven into the ground by it?
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In the nearly 20 years I have been an internal comms pro, internal communication has been prematurely pronounced dead on a number of...
When people hear about “business communication,” they often think it’s about “the business”: numbers, institutional announcements and soulless statements.
In my experience, it’s stories by and about individuals that get the...
As part of my weekend trawl through my endless Facebook feeds, I stumbled upon this quote from Noam Chomsky, posted by an otherwise lucid Dutch friend of mine:
"What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re...
2016 is shaping up to be a year of the “angry voter” in the West, as evidenced by such phenomena as Donald Trump’s ascent through the Republican Party’s presidential nominating process in the US, the high poll ratings for a possible British exit...
Back in the old days in Russia, in many cities and neighborhoods, at metro stops and bus stops, there used to be glass cases housing copies of the current issue of Pravda.
Pravda, which...
When the word “internal communicator” comes up, most people in the business world don’t immediately think of the word “leader.”
But internal communicators do have real opportunities to lead and influence the...
In 1989, at the end of Cold War, Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed the “end of history”. But looking at recent events around the world, it seems abundantly clear that history is alive and well and has a bright future.
Similarly, some...