Improving communication skills is the single most powerful step one can take to supercharge a career. What are the best, PROVEN ways to motivate action now, and gain lasting influence in any organization? The Truth About Getting Your Point Across reveals what really works: 59 principles and breakthrough communication techniques. Discover how to recognize an audience's unspoken expectations; run effective meetings; develop powerfully motivating presentations; give teams clear direction; brainstorm and problem-solve efficiently; successfully interview, listen, and give feedback; influence difficult colleagues; make the most of informal communication; and communicate more effectively with global colleagues.
Lonnie has over 25 years leadership expertise as an executive, project manager, developer, tester, analyst, trainer, consultant, and business owner. During his 11 years at Accenture Lonnie built leadership expertise consulting with many Fortune 500 companies including Motorola, Hughes Electronics, and Northrop-Grumman. During his nine years at Microsoft Lonnie continued building leadership expertise through development of some of Microsoft's internal systems, led their Corporate Procurement group, managed their Corporate Planning group, and led company-wide initiatives on Continuous Fiscal Improvement and Training Process Optimization. He has successfully implemented projects ranging from complex IT systems to process re-engineering to business strategies.
Lonnie's passion is to help other project managers and leaders be more successful in work and life. To that end, he's got tons of free stuff on his website www.leadingonedge.com.
Lonnie has written several books including "The Project Management Advisor : 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass," "The Truth About Getting Your Point Across : ...and Nothing But the Truth," "Six-Word Lessons for Project Managers", and "Why Don't They Follow me? 12 Easy Lessons to Boost Your Leadership Skills".
