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Overcoming Objections to Social Learning – One Week at at Time

May 9, 2009 SlideShare, Social Learning SIG, objections, slqotd

Last year at DevLearn I presented a session about the top 15 objections to social learning and how to overcome them. It was a GREAT session. In fact, it was where Dave Wilkins and I met and where we started doing the podcasts, webinars, Social Learning Question of the Day on Twitter and other projects.

A couple of weeks ago, Dave and I did a similar session, but as a webinar. There were over 200 people that attended. We thought that was good and we were happy with that. Then Dave took the webinar, slides and audio, and put them on SlideShare. Over these last two weeks, to our surprise, the webinar was viewed OVER 1400 MORE times! We are blown away!

Obviously, there is a need for this. So, to fulfill the need, we will be taking one objection a week and discussing it on the Social Learning NING group. It will give more people more space and time to give suggestions, voice concerns and really network ideas together.

So come join the 230 other people in this network.  Tell us your real live objection here, and we will add it in the mix.  Then put in your two cents (or more if you would like) for each objection.  Together we can get some fabulous perspectives and solutions!

I have embedded the webinar once again just to give you a feel for some of the topics we will be talking about.

Here’s to solving all our problems (or at least a few of them!).

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A Followup to “15 Objections” – 120 More

Dec 5, 2008 Social Learning SIG

Before I presented at DevLearn I posted the objections in my presentation to a forum and to try to get some new perspectives.  Just today someone added a list he uses.  They are particularly true and I swear I have heard them all.  Thought you might enjoy them…

120 Ways to Deter Innovation

Which ones do you use?

1.   The savings are only peanuts.

2.   That’s beyond our responsibilities.

3.   That’s Joe’s job, not mine!

4.   Not enough help.

5.   It’s against company policy.

6.   We don’t have the authority.

7.   Have you gone through proper channels ?

8.   Lets get back to reality.

9.   Can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

10.  Good thought, but impractical.

11.  Let’s think about it some more.

12.  Management would never go for that.

13.  The client won’t like it.

14.  They won’t hold still for that.

15.  Let’s put it in writing.

16.  We’ll be the laughing stock.

17.  Not that again!

18.  Weld lose money in the long run.

19.  We did all right without it.

20.  Where’ d you dig that one up.

21.  It’s never been tried.

22.  Let someone else try it first.

23.  That’s been tried before.

24.  What’s the use?

25.  Not enough time.

26.  Too hard to sell.

27.  I don’t see the connection.

28.  It’s not practical.

29.  What you are really saying is . .

30.  It leaves me cold.

31.  It won’t stand up.

32.  Let’s all sleep on it.

33.  You’re right, but . . .

34.  I’m not convinced.

35.  We’ve tried that before.

36.  We’ve always done it this way.

37.  It won’t work.

38.  We can’t pay for the tools.

39.  It costs too much.

40.  If I thought it’d work, I’d have used it.

41.  It’s not in the budget.

42.  Where will the money come from?

43.  You can’t do that!

44.  You should know better.

45.  We’re not ready for that.

46.  This isn’t the right time for it.

47.  We’re not considering hardware yet.

48.  Everybody does it this way.

49.  Too academic.

50.  Not timely.

51.  It’s a gimmick.

52.  It isn’t progressive.

53.  Not for us.

54.  Too hard to administer.

55.  No good!

56.  Plain stupid.

57.  Screwy.

58.  Too radical.

59.  Too complicated.

60.  The idea is unsound.

61.  It isn’t feasible.

62.  Too difficult.

63.  Impossible!

64.  Production won’t accept it.

65.  We can’t hold up production for that

66.  Engineering won’t approve it.

67.  My Boss won’t like it.

68.  I can’t see it.

69.  Too much trouble to get started.

70.  So what?  We’re making a profit!

71.  We don’t have the manpower.

72.  We haven’t time for detail.

73.  The design is frozen.

74.  Schedule won’t allow any plans.

75.  Who is going to do it?

76.  Takes too much time.

77.  We don’t do it that way here.

78.  Our product is different.

79.  Too much work.

80.  It won’t apply to our problem.

81.  Don’t move too fast.

82.  It will set a precedent.

83.  Not enough background.

84.  Why can’t we do it another way ?

85.  We’ve got something just as good now.

86.  Don’t be ridiculous.

87.  We know all this . . .

88.  I’m too busy to decide now.

89.  We haven’t enough facts.

90.  What about the directive?

91.  That will take two years to test.

92.  It will make present equipment obsolete.

93.  It’s not permitted by specifications.

94.  It’s not according to standard changes.

95.  We’ll come back to it later.

96.  Let’s form a committee.

97.  Cost doesn’t matter.

98.  Why change it – it works.

99.  We can’t help it – it’s policy.

100.  Forget cost – just get it out.

101.  The way we’re doing it is best.

102.  Why?

103.  Runs up our overhead.

104.  That’s too “ivory tower.”

105.  What do our competitors do?

106.  What can we expect from the staff?

107.  Has anyone else ever tried it ?

108.  It won’t work in our industry.

109.  It won’t work in my department.

110.  No, no, no.

111.  Too theoretical.

112.  Personnel aren’t ready for this.

113.  The users won’t go for it.

114.  Its new.

115.  We have too many projects now.

116.  We don’t want to do this now.

117.  It’s not standard stock.

118.  We don’t have enough volume.

119.  Let’s shelve it for the time being.

120.  Could a vendor supply this for less ?

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DevLearn08 Thoughts – Twitter, Objections and Continued Learning

Nov 18, 2008 Social Learning SIG

(Dinner with Jay Cross, Clark Quinn and others, taking pictures of Stacey and her stolen skateboard.)

Wow.  What a fabulous conference put on by Brent Schlenker and the eLearning Guild. (I am told that handouts & PPTs will be available next week.)  Here were some hightlights from my POV:

• Tweets - I had used Twitter casually before the converence.  Then during the conference I swear I used it more in those few days than I had in all the time leading up to it. Now I can’t go back.  What a great way to give and get info.
• Meets - I met so many wonderful people. Some for the first time, some I had known online and met for the first time in real life.  During the dinners I got to know a lot of new people and had some really good discussions. You guys (and gals) are great!
• Presenting – Friday morning – early.  Who’s going to show up for a Breakfast Byte?  Actually, a lot.  Way to wake yourself up!  And thanks to everyone who chipped in and answered questions.  Then, a few hours later, what a great concurrent session I had!  Earlier in the week I had attended a session by Dave Wilkins.  It was as if I was watching myself present – the same energy, the same passion and the same information I would have given.  So, realizing that I am not the only one who knows this stuff, I asked him to join me and help present my session on the 15 most common objections to social learning and how to overcome them.  In fact, I relied a lot on the audience to come up with the information as well, trying to make it as social as possible.  It was spectacular.  For it being the last session of the last day, we had more people than I had thought would come.  And some fabulous comments from everyone.  And Dave?  We were on the same wavelength the whole time.  So glad he agreed to join me.
• Information – What I love about this is that the information lives on. I learned some great stuff there and am continuing to do so after the conference (mostly through Twitter).  It just doesn’t end!

Tags: 15 objections, Twitter