Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called it “One of the most important documents that Silicon Valley has ever produced”: the Netflix Culture Deck.

Organizations that provide employees with direction as well as autonomy, prove more effective in finding answers to new challenges. What does this mean for the role of internal communication? In this blog I explore the environment of self-management and collaborative problem solving.

Whether we feel happy and valued at work, is strongly related to three simple questions. Our collective feelings about these questions amount to what is known as an organization’s communication climate. In this blog post I explore what we can do to foster a healthy communication climate.

In my first blog communication climate takes center stage. Communication climate is about the quality of the relationships that exist in an organization. A plea to start focussing on mutually rewarding relationships and to let corporate communication evolve into its next stage: corporate conversation.