PreWebinar Sound Bites - a quick conversation with Mark Oehlert

I had the chance to chat with this month's webinar guest speaker, Mark Oehlert, the Innovation Specialist at the Defense Acquitition University yesterday and was inspired by what he had to say. I can't wait for tomorrows webinar when we will be able to dig into the topics even more.

The Webinar title is: "How To Overcome the Top Three Challenges to Building an Organization Dedicated to Social Learning" - and it is overarching enough to allow us a lot of latitude in where we go. You can register for the free webinar here

Not to preempt the talk (much), but the 3 Challenges are Fear, Control and Trust. Mark speaks on this topic a lot and has a lot of passion for it as I could tell in our short talk.

Here are some quotes I took down as fast as I could that could be longer conversations in their own right:

• Social media efforts are not culturally neutral - they will change the organization
• Disruptive Discovery - I will let Mark discuss this one live
• Have an Organizational Development and Change Management professional on the team
• "The truth of the organization instead of the organizational chart"
• and my favorite: Do you trust your employees

Mark has a strong take on this topic and I am sure we are all going to learn a lot from him.

You can still register for the free webinar here