What Is Internal Communication?

So, internal communication. If my goal were to put you to sleep before we even began, I’d be hard pressed to find a term more soporific than “internal communication”. And if I’m being completely honest, a great deal of what we associate with internal communication is no less snooze-inducing. We’re talking things like reports, meetings, announcements, training, day-to-day collaboration with coworkers, etc. When it comes to the day-to-day job of getting work done, internal communication is ubiquitous. But is that all internal communication is? Not by a long shot. All these things I listed—meetings, reports, training, collaboration—these are just outward manifestations of internal communications, or internal comms as its sometimes called. But if internal comms is more than meetings and reports, what is it then?