ProficiencyBench: Collaborating Successfully

Excel in both individual work and group settings!

Many opportunities to add value, gain recognition, and achieve exciting tasks may only be available through establishing mutually beneficial workplace relationships. To maximize accomplishments and impact, employees must successfully collaborate with other professionals. This book is designed to build upon your existing proficiency skills and enable you to obtain your ideal job role. This book contains in-depth lessons on how to communicate effectively in meetings, work in a team setting to achieve a common goal, network with professional contacts, implement strategic thinking in your career pursuits, and build and deliver business presentations. Inside you will also find helpful examples, tips, and techniques for practically applying this information to developing your own professional career.

Author Phillip Selleh has led organizations on both a national and an international scale by providing management to companies including AT&T, Inc., META Group, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Ontempo eServices. He also founded About Giving, Inc., a 501(c)(3) Public Charity which provides professional career development training, educational opportunities, and high-quality resources to severely disabled Veterans in need of aid.

Phillip Selleh has led organizations on both a national and an international scale by providing management to companies including AT&T, Inc., a world leader in communications, media, entertainment, and technology; META Group, a leading information technology research and consulting firm; Computer Sciences Corporation, a provider of information technology and professional services; and Ontempo eServices, a provider of business intelligence and marketing solutions. While hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center during military service, Phillip Selleh interacted with service members who expressed interest in transitioning to careers in business and overcoming the obstacles to achieving their goals. These interactions inspired him to found and become a board member of About Giving, Inc. A 501(c)(3) Public Charity, About Giving, Inc., provides educational opportunities and high-quality resources to severely disabled Veterans in need of assistance. Phillip Selleh earned a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneural and International Finance from George Washington University. He also gained education and training in leadership and operations from the United States Army before retiring as a Colonel. Phillip Selleh now dedicates his unique skills and abilities toward aiding other severely disabled Veterans with professional career development at the Center for Business Acceleration (CenterForBusinessAcceleration.com/Veteran).