The Piar Podcast features some of the most brilliant minds in Public Relations & Communications around the world, as well as a few Authors, Thinkers & Strategists from adjacent industries like: Behavioral Science, Marketing Analytics, Data Science, Philosophy & Mathematics.
What the podcast promises? Thought provoking ideas, questions & discussions. Topics and subject matter that elevates the Public Relations & Communications professional, and designed to give the listener a valuable perspective on becoming more strategic.
Front and center are tackling unique & complex business challenges, applying frameworks, methodologies, tools & techniques from other industries to the PR & Comms context, and helping Communicators navigate the AI Age while building confidence & trust with high-priority stakeholders along the way.
Whether you need to earn the respect and admiration of your team, executive & C-suite leadership, clients, or customers. Listening to the interviews from The Piar Podcast sets you apart from the crowd, should you enact, expand, and investigate the ideas discussed in our programming.
Heard a thought provoking take, concept, contrarian view? Double click by taking initiative to learn more about the subject using Generative AI, Connecting with our host & speakers on LinkedIn, or visiting www.piar.co for more details, information, and free resources.
The Piar Podcast is hosted by Tan Sukhera, CEO & Co-Founder of Piar. A company that co-creates specialized learning & training experiences in the form of unique workshops. Designed to help PR & Comms navigate the AI Age by uplifting them to a far more strategic position than ever imagined.
With help from frameworks, tools & thought exercises borrowed from adjacent industries as far reaching as Epidemiology, The Scientific Method, The Philosophy Of Science, Marketing Analytics, Behavioral Science, and Advanced Assessment Techniques.
The workshops are Mission Oriented, with a real goal, decision, challenge, plan, campaign, or challenge in mind. The underlying aim is to achieve a several orders of magnitude boost in two things:
Decision Quality & Judgement Quality.
These are the underpinnings of the future PR & Comms success. With so much execution being handled by Artificial Intelligence, the humans will compete fiercely on applying these two skills to their work.
This Podcast is a humanist mission to save PR & Comms leaders from future redundancy. While we can't save everyone from what's on the horizon. Consider yourself one of us. Join the community, support, follow, share, like & comment on our posts, and nudge us along in the algorithm wherever you find your programming.
PS: We love making new friends, so don't be shy to connect with us via our website, or find Piar on LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/piarco
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The Piar Podcast features some of the most brilliant minds in Public Relations & Communications around the world, as well as a few Authors, Thinkers & Strategists from adjacent industries like: Behavioral Science, Marketing Analytics, Data Science, Philosophy & Mathematics.
What the podcast promises? Thought provoking ideas, questions & discussions. Topics and subject matter that elevates the Public Relations & Communications professional, and designed to give the listener a valuable perspective on becoming more strategic.
Front and center are tackling unique & complex business challenges, applying frameworks, methodologies, tools & techniques from other industries to the PR & Comms context, and helping Communicators navigate the AI Age while building confidence & trust with high-priority stakeholders along the way.
Whether you need to earn the respect and admiration of your team, executive & C-suite leadership, clients, or customers. Listening to the interviews from The Piar Podcast sets you apart from the crowd, should you enact, expand, and investigate the ideas discussed in our programming.
Heard a thought provoking take, concept, contrarian view? Double click by taking initiative to learn more about the subject using Generative AI, Connecting with our host & speakers on LinkedIn, or visiting www.piar.co for more details, information, and free resources.
The Piar Podcast is hosted by Tan Sukhera, CEO & Co-Founder of Piar. A company that co-creates specialized learning & training experiences in the form of unique workshops. Designed to help PR & Comms navigate the AI Age by uplifting them to a far more strategic position than ever imagined.
With help from frameworks, tools & thought exercises borrowed from adjacent industries as far reaching as Epidemiology, The Scientific Method, The Philosophy Of Science, Marketing Analytics, Behavioral Science, and Advanced Assessment Techniques.
The workshops are Mission Oriented, with a real goal, decision, challenge, plan, campaign, or challenge in mind. The underlying aim is to achieve a several orders of magnitude boost in two things:
Decision Quality & Judgement Quality.
These are the underpinnings of the future PR & Comms success. With so much execution being handled by Artificial Intelligence, the humans will compete fiercely on applying these two skills to their work.
This Podcast is a humanist mission to save PR & Comms leaders from future redundancy. While we can't save everyone from what's on the horizon. Consider yourself one of us. Join the community, support, follow, share, like & comment on our posts, and nudge us along in the algorithm wherever you find your programming.
PS: We love making new friends, so don't be shy to connect with us via our website, or find Piar on LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/piarco
Always Think About Thinking ©
Internal Communications or Internal Combustion: Mike Klein on Surviving the Big Shift
AI isn't just automating work. It's accelerating it. And that acceleration is about to expose every crack in your organization's decision-making architecture. In this episode of The Piar Podcast, host Tan Sukhera sits down with Mike Klein, one of internal communications' most connected and candid voices, to unpack what he calls "the big shift" and why the next six months matter more than the next three years.
Mike Klein is founder of the #WeLeadComms recognition program, editor-in-chief of Strategic Magazine, and an IABC Fellow. He holds an MBA from London Business School and has worked with large enterprises across seven countries on culture and communication challenges. Currently on a six-week research tour across India, Mike brings a ground-level perspective on what's actually happening versus what industry surveys suggest.
What You'll Learn:
The Acceleration Problem Nobody's Talking About - ChatGPT does in two minutes what used to take an intern two weeks. But here's what matters more: when AI accelerates your work, it accelerates decision speed across the entire organization. Reports that took three months now arrive in days. Leadership won't have two weeks to review them. Maybe a day. Maybe an hour. Most business cultures are built for escalation, not decision. This mismatch is where internal combustion happens.
The Talent Disruption Triple Threat - Three forces are converging: AI automation, white-collar layoffs at profitable companies, and Gen Z entering the workforce while hiring freezes lock them out. The old social contract of loyalty-for-security is dead. "We want your loyalty, but we're no longer giving you security. That's not a model that's going to work."
Why Internal Comms Gets Trapped - Most internal comms functions report to either HR or marketing. Neither comfortably hosts a 360-degree organizational perspective. HR wants its KPIs hit. Marketing wants products pushed. Mike offers three paths out: become a skilled negotiator, build C-suite allies who will defend your budget, or find an organization where comms reports directly to leadership with real organizational dependency.
Training's Brutal Moment - People aren't buying training right now. Companies are unsure who'll still be employed. Employees are uncertain which skills will exist in a year. Mike's advice: forget training on AI (you'll learn by using it). Instead, invest in understanding adjacent fields. Learn PR if you're in internal comms. Learn business strategy. Learn sales. Understand how the business actually makes money.
The Differentiation Endgame - When AI handles 60-80% of execution and every competitor uses similar tools, what's left? "The sole source of differentiation is going to be the communication, the decision fluency of the organization, and the compelling nature of the organization's story." No function is better positioned to deliver that than communications.
Throughout the conversation, Mike emphasizes thinking like both CEO and employee simultaneously, understanding stakeholder motivations beyond transactions, and building the judgment muscles that AI cannot replicate. His message is direct: this isn't a three-year transformation. It's happening now.